My History Can Beat Up Your Politics - Winamp (2024)

America decides whether or not to re-elect a President and it's close. Bruce does his best 1916 version of Steve Kornacki going through the returns as they come in and as the nation awaits a verdict. A President that hadn't been elected with a majority, a re-election that happens while Europe is at war. Early results show that America will get a new President. But those pesky precincts. Why can't they count the vote faster? We talk about the factors behind the election and Wilson's Presidency.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/15/2024 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 14 seconds

Did Aaron Burr try to run for President on the sly, while claiming he didn't? What about that dinner with Jefferson? Did Stephen Douglas stump when he said he was "just visiting his mom?" Did President Monroe actually have a campaign for President in 1820? More to the point did he actually get a vote cast against him? (This one is different from what you may have learned in history class). This, and other stories of that American tradition of not running for President.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/8/2024 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds

They called him the "Hamlet on the Hudson." What series on people not running for President in American history would be complete without the former governor of New York Mario Cuomo. He was famous for coming ever-so-close to running for President. And then, not running. In one case, he left a plane on a tarmac for reporters to watch for hours. Was it politics? Was it bad timing? Was it preference for state government? What about those mob ties [real or imagined] that were talked about? And was it, just maybe, a kind a weird psychological thing? We examine it all, in detail, on this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/1/2024 • 34 minutes, 41 seconds

One thing Horatio Seymour made clear was that he was not running for President. He made it clear by saying not only he would not run but that he "must not be President." His party simply didn't care. And so, there he was on the ballot. In this three-part series we look at people not running for President, not knowing they were running, or in the case of Greeley unable to finish the run because, well, they were not alive. You'll find that not running for President (but announcing it) is almost as much a part of American political history as running for the office.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/25/2024 • 55 minutes, 19 seconds

The Supreme Court said in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently illegal. It took decades to fully address the problem. While events in the South are often discussed, events North also are important to focus on to understand the history. This cast blends modern events with a cast from 2007 talking about Brown, Brown III, Swain, PIC and the associated decisions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/18/2024 • 54 minutes, 10 seconds

Extras from the Student Loans episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/7/2024 • 23 minutes, 36 seconds

In this episode, I talk to fellow Airwave Media podcaster Will Clark of Grey History about the French Revolution and how it shaped American history, how American politicians reacted to it at the time, 100 years ago, and today. We also get into 'grey areas' of the French Revolution: things that we think about it that may be wrong, exaggerated, or even right on target.ABOUT GREY HISTORYGrey History is a podcast dedicated to exploring the ambiguities of the past. Too often history is presented as black and white, and Grey History seeks to examine the area in between those two extremes. Why? Because it’s in the grey that history has its beauty, its intrigue, and, most importantly, its lessons.In order to explore history’s ambiguities, the podcast makes a deliberate point of comparing differing experiences, perspectives, and conclusions. By incorporating testimonies from a wide variety of participants, contemporaries, and historians, we can better understand the lessons of the past.https://greyhistory.com/Both of our shows are members of the Airwave Media Networkwww.airwavemedia.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/26/2024 • 1 hour, 22 minutes

With Edward Segal, author of Whistle-Stop Politics, we talk about the unique method of campaigning for President - by train. And why it's not just a thing of the past.See more about Edward's book here:https://edwardsegal.com/whistle-stop-politics/We are part of Airwave Media NetworkFor more train politics stories, more 1988 election stories, and other things, join our Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuypLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/19/2024 • 31 minutes, 41 seconds

Dukakis gets a less than helpful piece of advice from a friend. A surprising VP choice. Plus, an update on the show.JOIN The Patreon for My History Can Beat Up Your Politics and Become one of the elite listeners who get extra tidbits, special episodes and sometimes previews.http:www.patreon.com/mhcbuypIt can be as little as $3 per month.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/15/2024 • 6 minutes, 46 seconds

In our final episode of our six-part series on the 1988 Presidential Election, Vice President Bush has a lead over Mike Dukakis. It's close enough for a comeback though, and more than a few have suggestions for a different Dukakis message. A series of mistakes will doom the campaign. And that is the traditional way the story is told. But we suggest there they may been an invisible election going on under the surface.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/12/2024 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 15 seconds

Michael Dukakis secures the nomination, unifies his party and has a well-regarded convention. He's seventeen points ahead in the polls. Is it real? Even his own campaign staff thinks it may not be. A story in Reader's Digest is troubling. In New Orleans, Bush fires back, while dealing with questions about his choice for number two.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/5/2024 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 32 seconds

With a split southern primary day, the Democrats have no clear leader. Team Dukakis would like to have been thought of as the leader, but Illinois and Michigan spoiled that. Only one state can settle things. And the Big Three Democratic campaigns settle on New York. Millions of dollars, frenetic debates, subways and hot dogs. It's all fun and games until New York City's mayor gets involved. Meanwhile, Bush is rapidly securing his nomination, but no one can tell Bob Dole that. He still has a few plans, if anyone will listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/22/2024 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 58 seconds

In the wake of a front-runner's withdrawal, the campaigns struggle to get traction and block rival campaigns. The best weapon. An attack videotape. A story of three attack videotapes. One sent to a reporter which took out a major player in the campaign. Another in the snows of New Hampshire that saved a candidate, and a third that kept a campaign alive. Also a video that was never sent that should have been sent.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/15/2024 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 9 seconds

Gary Hart, the frontrunner in the Democratic side of the 1988 race, hits a major setback. Not only his he hurt, but so are all the people who wanted to have the chance to beat him. Now what? Jump Ball, says an aide of new candidate Joe Biden. Biden hopes to fill the gap, with his appeal to Baby Boomers will carry him forward. Al Gore enter the race, swinging at everyone. Dick Gephardt comes up with a zero-to-hero TV ad. Bush just can't get through to country people.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/8/2024 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 45 seconds

In our first episode of our series on the 1988 Presidential Election: a cornfield prognosticator, men of the cloth, a young upstart, a senator with big glasses, a casino king, a prince of the polls and more than a few watching from the outside, thinking about maybe getting in. Who will succeed Reagan?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/2/2024 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds

We talk to Stephen Byrne, host of Whats Am Politics about events in the United Kingdom with some contrasts to politics in the United States. In the UK currently, the government is very unpopular but there's nothing they or anyone else can do about it for at least six months, and probably a year. Meanwhile, a man labelled 'Mr. Boring' might become the country's leader. And a major third party in Parliament, the Scottish National Party, may be decimated in the next election due to intra party changes. Complex, yet interesting - tune in.What Am Politics -https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hvnK8EhRyANSapXIh8PQIWe are part of Airwave Media NetworkWish to advertise on the show? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/24/2023 • 59 minutes, 47 seconds

Fed up with the US government's efforts to rescue her son being held hostage, Barbara Timm, mother of a Marine guard at the US Embassy at Iran, goes directly to Tehran. We tell her story.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkAdvertise? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/21/2023 • 23 minutes, 8 seconds

We talk with John Ellis of News Corp, NBC, Boston Globe and currently at news-items.com, to discuss his theory on today's politics. Jacksonians, a group of people who behave in ways the media has misjudged are the force beyond today's polls numbers. We also took a bit about calling states for networks in elections, something Ellis had a role in in the 2000 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/18/2023 • 57 minutes, 47 seconds

In 1980, George Bush did the impossible. He went from three percent in the polls, an asterisk in the polls, as he called himself, to defeating front-runner Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucuses. The issue: electability, moderation, and age. The event upset a rage and nearly changed history. Indeed, it put the Bush name into politics. We discuss what happened and how it might provide insight into today's races.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/11/2023 • 1 hour, 54 seconds

We hear the phrase democracy dies in darkness and how important transparency is - but is it really? After all the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention met in private. Bruce talks with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame about the history of secrecy and democracy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/4/2023 • 50 minutes, 5 seconds

From the excellent Useless Information podcast, the story of the development of educational television in Mississippi, and the exclusion of one particular program.For more information on Useless Information podcast, please go to www.uselessinformation.orgLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/27/2023 • 32 minutes, 29 seconds

Dan Quayle's name conjures up images of late-night comedian jokes and verbal gaffes, but he may have offered a little-known service to the President he served.In this episode, we discuss George H.W. Bush's vice president, including his ups and downs, and even his recent role in advising Mike Pence during the Jan 6, 2021 events.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/20/2023 • 43 minutes, 1 second

We've launched the Fall of USSR as its own podcast to attract new listeners, and I'd like some help. That and a show update of what I am working on. Thanks for listening.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/17/2023 • 13 minutes, 13 seconds

The Spanish American War, from Spain's point of view. Journalism gets yellow. Roosevelt makes a charge. He gets help from a group that he doesn't acknowledge very well. A little bit about the deconstruction of Reconstruction.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/13/2023 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 43 seconds

America is growing, in unison. Time for a pledge.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/9/2023 • 49 minutes, 24 seconds

It is a rarely used tactic, but when it works, it can do big things, like moving a bill through Congress even if the Speaker doesn't support it. From civil rights to gun show loopholes, from budget balancing to debt ceilings, we look at the Discharge Petition. And why it's become important for GOP conservatives in the 90's and for Democrats today.We are part of Airwave Media Network (www.airwavemedia.com)Music by Lee Rosevere and his MUSIC FOR PODCASTSLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/6/2023 • 37 minutes, 28 seconds

Attempts to fly, science fiction, and new economic theories.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/2/2023 • 30 minutes, 9 seconds

Populism rears its head.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/30/2023 • 49 minutes, 15 seconds

A look back at the decade when America got modern.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/25/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 20 seconds

We look at the Vice President who - maybe - described the office as a "bucket of warm spit."He also may have been its most powerful occupant up to his time, and he's responsible in a little way for making two President's careers.He's also the first Vice President to campaign against the President, though since the President wasn't officially campaigning at the time, perhaps it doesn't count.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/22/2023 • 43 minutes, 45 seconds

The poet Joyce Kilmer and his story of romantic poetry and war. Removing speakers (while Kevin McCarthy is the first speaker vacated by motion, there have been others who have been pressured out) and with Kaiser Permanente in the news a bit about that unique organization, and a view from a visiting French philosopher in the 1940s.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/17/2023 • 54 minutes, 13 seconds

A look at Reagan's intervention in Lebanon in 1983, from a podcast back in 2009. We also look at Wilson' intervention in Mexico in 1913We are part of airwave media newtorkwant to advertise? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/16/2023 • 47 minutes, 27 seconds

NOTE - if you haven't listened to Part I of our series on Black Hawk you'll want to listen. This is a two-parter. In the second episode. Chief Black Hawk has an improbable victory, and it sets the stage for all-out conflict.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/12/2023 • 52 minutes, 53 seconds

In 1832, a renegade chief crossed the Mississippi river. In his view, it was simply to get back to his cornfields. But the United States considered it an invasion, and reacted accordingly, and at first, badly, leading to deaths on both sides. It was, according to the general that led troops in the war, a mistake. But it would make the careers of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor and open up western settlement.Yet if Black Hawk was an enemy, why was he embraced by those that defeated him. Why in the name of newspapers, in the county courthouse, in state motos and in attack helicopters, does he remain? We look at the story of Black Hawk, his 'war,' and the consequences. We'll look at appropriation of Native American symbols and the legacy of Black Hawk's war today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/9/2023 • 40 minutes, 20 seconds

A President becomes a former President. But not before one of the toughest final days of a Presidency. We are part of Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.comAdvertise? [emailprotected]We have a patreon if you'd like to support us - see www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/2/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 46 seconds

There is a lot of discussion about to run Biden or run someone else. I can't tell you who you should vote for President, or who you'd prefer to lead your country, but if you look at chances of a party winning or losing an election - History could not be clearer - parties should run an incumbent if they at all can run an incumbent.-Incumbents win 2/3rds of the time in American History-Incumbents can affect news and command news in a much greater way than party candidates-Passing off from a President to a candidate is risky and rare in American history.-Most Importantly: The incumbent President is always running anyway. If not on the ballot, in the election issues and discussion, and the party candidate will have to run on that President's record anyway.We also get into the age issue with some snippets of MHCBUYP's 2008 episode on age and the Presidency. That's right from 2008, where we defended a Republican candidate.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/26/2023 • 48 minutes, 48 seconds

In the third year of the Presidency, Jimmy Carter wrestles with combining the principles of his first term with realities of the American economy amid myriad domestic struggles, two hostage-taking incidents, and a intraparty political rival. He attempts to make a speech that will reconnect him with the American people.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkTo advertise, email [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/18/2023 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 56 seconds

Can the Presidency be done differently? Can a President be less Imperial, more of a citizen, turning the thermostat down in the White House and carrying his own bags? In many ways, Jimmy Carter approached 1977 seeing himself in this light. We look at the first year of Carter's Presidency.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/11/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 41 seconds

Four volunteers decided to run their friend's dad for President. The reason: they liked hanging out together and working on something fun. The result may have changed history.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/4/2023 • 42 minutes, 25 seconds

With Bob Crawford, co-host of Road to Now Podcast and bassist for The Avett Brothers, we talk about the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. Bob's knowledge of this not well-known President shines through in the interview. He's recently completed a series FORTUNATE SON on JQA. We discuss not only his Presidency, but his post-Presidency. We also discuss Bob and Bruce's college experiences and New Jersey and national politics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/28/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 19 seconds

The story of Eugene Debs and another case where a Presidential candidate ran from prison and compare - as well as contrast - with the current politics. Also a bit about experimental TV.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/21/2023 • 41 minutes, 53 seconds

Learn something new about major news events from the people there. We talk to Josh Cohen of Eyewitness History Podcast (https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/eyewitness-history/). The excerpts from his interviews manage to knock down some of the myths about major historical events and news stories. We start with the principal of Columbine High School, there on that terrible day, and we go to the newsman covering The Lake Placid Olympics in 1980. We also talk to a Jonestown Massacre survivor, a member of the rock band Queen, and the so-called father of podcasting.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/14/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 10 seconds

It's not every day people sit around and talk about the 3rd amendment.And yet, it was important in its time. And is used sometimes to refer to an array of rights. What is quarter?What are soldiers?What does this little amendment mean today, if anything?A re-broadcast of our episode on the Third Amendment about quartering soldiers, starting with.And a look at legal battles in fairly recent history and then one that occurred right after I recorded the episode.(which was resolved in the way I predicted on this cast).We are part of Airwave Media NetworkLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/7/2023 • 38 minutes, 53 seconds

It's been 17 years since we first hooked up that Radio Shack mic to a giant Dell desktop tower and made a show about politics and the history of today. Thanks for the listens. I talk about a change in my life related to the show and about the last actor's strike, and the ERA and the primaries.Update - no indictment talk on this one, episode already recorded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/2/2023 • 41 minutes, 54 seconds

Before Prohibition could be repealed but after many Americans had grown tired of it, a novel political trick was tried - declaring beer was OK. Well a certain kind of beer, called 3.2. It only lasted eight months, though in many states it lasted longer and in one American state, is still law. We look at this forgotten part of the New Deal and how it provides an example of the role of science in American politics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/17/2023 • 53 minutes, 26 seconds

A replay of our interview with Thomas Oliphant: Will the real JFK please stand up.What image should we have today of the 35th President.Our interview with author and Boston Globe reporter Thomas Oliphant, about his book Road to Camelot Inside JFKs Five Year Campaign.We talk about how we should view the President who will turn 100 this month.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/10/2023 • 58 minutes, 44 seconds

You only think you know them. Ironworkers, militia captains, lawyers, preachers, tinsmiths and. Names still unknown mixed with Mayflower descendants. Powerful and unknown men. Rich and poor men. In the longest MHCBUYP episode, of course based largely on our They Signed Podcast of years ago, this is the story of the declaration's signers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/4/2023 • 5 hours, 26 minutes, 50 seconds

Campaign songs, Kangaroo Ballots, The Dapper Governor Hill. More Burke co*ckran and Churchill. Everything we left out of the podcast episode about Governor Cleveland's second non-consecutive term.If you haven't listened to that episode yet, we suggest listening to it first.For extras on previous podcasts, sign up for our Patreon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/30/2023 • 33 minutes, 1 second

Only one person has been elected President twice in non-consecutive terms. But it was not easy. To do it Grover Cleveland had to pass a few difficult tests. From Goody-Goodies to Anti-Snappers, to Anti-Egoists and Scarecrow Festivals; from entering opposing party contests in secret ways to placing bets for your own candidate, to pretending to run in states and letting a third party win, to taking forceful honest stands, 1892 had everything. It was a triumph of navigating complex steampower politics.The first being, did he really want to run again?We are part of Airwave Media Network. www.airwavemedia.comOur sponsor is Money Pickle. Try out their FREE financial advisor service today at MoneyPIckle.comDo you wish to advertise - contact [emailprotected]Donate- www.patreon.com/mhcbuypLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/26/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 11 seconds

Remember that TV debate between Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson in 1964? What a showdown! Just kidding of course, there wasn't one. Why wasn't there one, and what happened as a result. (hint - major policy change) We talk about the debate JFK might have had with Goldwater. Then we get into the Constitution and what is says and doesn't say about 2 term Presidents attempting to run for Vice President. Not that that's going to happen. And a look at Herbert Hoover's Children's Charter and what it means in placing him on the political spectrum. And - a wee bit about Yalta and the complications of assessing Yalta.We are part of Airwave Media Network.What to advertise - [emailprotected]We have a patreon.Support us by giving us a good review, particularly on Apple PodcastsThanks for listening.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/10/2023 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds

In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic and patriotic participation in World War I. He thought it was the key to expanding rights and treatment for African Americans. He was only to be later disappointed by the treatment of soldiers in France, the treatment of veterans when they came home, and the revision of history after the war to downplay accomplishments of African American soldiers. He struggled to write a book but could never come to terms with his own role in World War I and what came after. We discuss the life and legacy of the author and activist W.E.B. DuBois with Chad L. Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.He is the author of The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.--We are part of Airwave Media NetworkMusic by Lee RosevereWant to support us? - We have a Patreon - go to www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.comAdvertise: [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/4/2023 • 32 minutes, 59 seconds

In our final episode on the first GOP governor of Florida since Reconstruction, Claude Kirk. Kirk's flamboyant style got him attention as a national political star in the late 1960's. But three particular actions he takes will trap him and make his future difficult.Music by Lee Rosevere and Revolution Void from Free Music Archive.We are part of Airwave MediaWant to advertise? - [emailprotected]We have a Patreon - if you'd like to support us, www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.comCan you help review the show on Apple Podcasts? If you could, it would help a lot. Thanks!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/29/2023 • 55 minutes, 47 seconds

In his first and second years as an improbable GOP Governor in the South in the 1960's Kirk, tries out a new type of politics, at least new to the Sunshine State: confrontation. Equally with protestors, strikers, and polluters, he confronts them straight on. He also makes a miscalculation that will hurt his rep while he's winning a political victory.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkWant to advertise? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/22/2023 • 43 minutes, 58 seconds

In the late 1960's the first GOP governor of Florida since Reconstruction found himself elected with no support in the legislature. He had only a microphone and so he used direct confrontation, insults, press-bashing and other tactics to get elected and get his way. Rather than let things be he took on left-wing hippies and right wing segregationists alike in the early part of his term. He aimed his cannons at communists, but also at good old boy political machines. And what do you know, he also is the governor to bring in a large amusem*nt park to the state. Move that Earth he said! This will be part 1 of a 3 part series.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/15/2023 • 52 minutes, 5 seconds

So said the Reverend Billy Sunday on the passage of Prohibition. Needless to say he oversold, and the forces that changed the Constitution would, for the only time, change it back. A look at Prohibition from many angles. Did it do any good? Did it cause, as at least one contemporary said, the drug problem? What does it say about drug legalization, really. From a long-since aired previous episode. The changes in society and view of law enforcement the legislation brought.This was written a decade ago - since then I have watched the Ken Burns special, and I do own a TV set.Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/8/2023 • 31 minutes, 7 seconds

Not just a holiday.We go to post-Civil War Mexico and find out the true story of a significant battle.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/5/2023 • 5 minutes, 33 seconds

Abe Fortas was a rising star on the Supreme Court. He argued a still-legendary case before it and then was appointed one of its justices. For many he was seen as the successor to Earl Warren. It was when he was nominated for Chief Justice that opposition cemented. He was too close to the President, too liberal on issues, and then there were disclosures of contributions he had received were revealed. After a drawn-out stalemate he withdrew his candidacy for Chief Justice. But it wouldn't stop there. Fortas also stepped down as an Associate Justice as the administration changed and political pressure increased.The Fortas case would be revealed later by insider and Watergate persona John Dean as part of an 'unpacking' plan that President Nixon had to reduce the left-lean of the Warren court, though it wasn't obvious at the time. But it's not that simple either. Fortas's case also has set a precedent for the danger of having a Justice with a close relationship to the Chief Executive.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/22/2023 • 44 minutes, 56 seconds

Please to introduce a podcast from friend of the show Bob Crawford of Road To Now Podcast and the Avett Brothers In iHeartPodcasts' "Founding Son: John Quincy's America," Bob Crawford of The Avett Brothers explores the post-presidential legacy of America’s sixth president: John Quincy Adams. Though often only seen as a failed one-term president and the sonof a Founding Father, Adams spent his final decades in Congress fighting the slavocracy and forming a bridge between the founding of America and the era of Lincoln. Founding Son features Patrick Warburton as the voice of John Quincy Adams, Nick Offerman as the voice of Andrew Jackson, and Grey DeLisle as the voice of Louisa Adams.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/13/2023 • 3 minutes, 22 seconds

It's time to talk trouble. With the talk of history being made, and in a way it has, we think it's best to note that the law and the Presidency have been, close, several times. Certainly people around Presidents have faced the law, sometimes for actions rendered for a President. And after all the Constitutional Framers took time out of their busy days to deal with Presidents and crime.Part of Airwave Media Networkadvertise? - [emailprotected]support us - please rate the show on Apple, or support our Patreon - patreon.com/mhcbuypLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/10/2023 • 53 minutes, 16 seconds

FDR may have never taken the oath if not for the quick thinking of a woman in Miami who, along with detectives may have thwarted a shooter.a 2023 - 'hodge podcast' of different things.A former Speaker talks about a lobby that flies under the radar but controls D.C.A writer that said what he really thought about Warren Harding.And Sidney Poitier navigates life as an African-American man and an actor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/3/2023 • 56 minutes, 45 seconds

What's in a word? Lots, maybe, when its a key word in the most contentious debate in America. The word "infringe" determines the threshold of how the Constitution should be enforced. But do we understand the word, and if we do, are we applying it correctly in our political debates over guns and politics? In this cast we look at how framers like Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson used the word, and how it's applied in DC v. Heller and US v. Miller. We contrast infringe to its Constitutional cousin abridge, and we look at what the NRA asserts about the 2nd amendment's words, including the word infringe.We also look at the current New York carry law Supreme Court case and where the Court is likely to go, and look at guns and politics in general.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/30/2023 • 52 minutes, 28 seconds

More of the story - Boiler room bohemians, the coup before the coup, Soviet "Easterns" Cowboy Movies, cassette tapes of Vladimir Vysotsky, how to save money, USSR style, faking out the KGB and more. What we left behind in the notebooks from the six-part FALL OF USSR series.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/20/2023 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 8 seconds

A country is removed from the map in a week. There's more too than that, but it's not far from the most truthful description. The final episode of our series on the fall of the Soviet Union finds a rescued Gorbachev quickly realizing that he might be in yet another seizure of power. But this one happening quietly over a few tiring days. And with the support of the Russian people.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/6/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 58 seconds

The first blood is spilled. We look at the right-wing of Soviet Society which triggered the putsch. And the rebellious elements that also existed. Jeans, rock and roll, religion, revisionism and weakness.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/27/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 43 seconds

It takes seconds and it helps us out greatly. Plus there's a chance to win a prize! See if My History Can Beat Up Your Politics can provide more general information about listeners to advertisers (just information like interests, nothing private), it helps us get advertisers who might otherwise go to the big podcasts. So it's not just the big podcasts getting all those ads! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwaveLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/23/2023 • 2 minutes, 4 seconds

As barricades are built and citizens turn to a protective barrier, the Soviet culture they come from might be the very thing that keeps them going.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media NetworkTo hear the next two episodes right now - sign up for our PatreonSponsor: Wondery's American ScandalBe Sure to Check Out Their Season on the Oklahoma City BombingLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/20/2023 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 16 seconds

Two institutions, the press and the military, may well determine the fate of the USSR on the night of August 19th, 1991. The Emergency Committee decides, it's time to explain themselves on TV. A reporter makes a fateful decision. So does another. A motley crowd is fashioned into an instant militia.Music by Lee Rosevere (Music for Podcasts) and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/13/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 25 seconds

Yeltzin has stood on a tank, but few have seen it. Crowds shift from the traditional protest places to a new one. They bring heavy metal. What on Zemlya is happening?It all starts in a steam bath. Sort of.In order to understand the events of August 19th, 1991, it's necessary to look back. Particularly at 1989, when the most orderly country on earth became the most unpredictable.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/8/2023 • 47 minutes, 14 seconds

Soviet citizens wake up to tanks outside their windows in 1991.Media is censored. The President is detained.Another president escapes, maybe just escapes... A third President is powerless.Is this the end of everything?Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/6/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 1 second

Get ready for the FALL OF USSR podcast which launches Feb 6th. If you can't wait for all of the episodes, you can get 5 now at Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuypAlso a whole bunch about classified documents.We are part of Airwave Media Network. Some great shows - Age of Napoleon, TeaTime History, History of The Second World War, Infamous America and Ben Franklin's World. www.airwavemedia.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/1/2023 • 38 minutes, 11 seconds

We look at Woodrow Wilson's Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall and his unique wit and approach to government.Some felt he should have become President given Wilson's condition.Outward indications are, he didn't want the place.The Hoosier lawyer turned national player's story, and about the relationship between VP and POTUS in the past compared to now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/27/2023 • 33 minutes, 58 seconds

The Democratic Party had a problem in the nineteen teens and twenties. What to do with a candidate that could stir up crowds but not enough electoral votes? Though pleased to nominate him in 1896 and introduce a new kind of politics to their party, some Democrats grew tired of William Jennings Bryan especially in his later years as his fundamentalism turned to alcohol, evolution and an arguable Southern favoritism.Also a brief look at his daughter, Ruth Bryan OwenLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/18/2023 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds

We talk a bit about Nathaniel Banks, the Speaker of The House of Representatives that (still) took the most ballots to be elected. Kevin McCarthy joins the ranks of Speakers that needed multiple ballots - we discuss the implications. A brief look at Frederick Gillett, the last Speaker to even need two ballots in 1923, and then a look at why Congress starts on January 3rd.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/8/2023 • 51 minutes, 45 seconds

The 72nd Congress of 1931 was, as elected, a very narrow Republican House 218 R - 217 D. Close, but for President Hoover, good enough. That is until, 14 Congressmen-elect died. Not all at once - that would be weird - over 13 months, for all kinds of reasons but heart attacks and pneumonias leading the list. When special elections were held, it went 218 D and 216 R. 1 Farm Laborer supported the Democrats so 219-216.We talk about this curious case. We also talk about the 14 Congressmen-elect who had some interesting biographies. And we talk Herbert Hoover and the spin he (tried to) put on The Great Depression.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network. www.airwavemedia.comAdvertise? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/26/2022 • 44 minutes, 54 seconds

Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley ForgeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/22/2022 • 1 hour, 54 seconds

When President Kennedy inspired the nation to put a man on the Moon, he did so at a time when the word "inflation" was not on the mind of most Americans. Why should it have been, the rate was a paltry 1.1%. And we needed to beat the Soviets to the Moon. Once we did, and as the cost of goods, materials and rocket fuel rose over time, The United State's space dreams were limited.Inflation didn't kill space, but it sure changed what the goals of going to space became. We look at the trends of inflation and space exploration on this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/20/2022 • 47 minutes, 17 seconds

One three-second period changed the life of an East German soldier. Stories of freedom and oppression feature heavily on this hodge-podcast episode, the Berlin Wall, the Uruguay dictatorship of the 70's and 80's, a bit about Grover Cleveland and a bit about Charles III.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/13/2022 • 56 minutes, 19 seconds

From his bamboo shaker to his views on prohibition, all about Franklin Roosevelt and drinking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/12/2022 • 22 minutes, 10 seconds

A few 'leftover' stories from the previous episode on the World Cup in Argentina, 1978. One story about the black bands that were on the goalposts has been challenged by Argentine newspapers, Reddit threads and other sources. Although there is a story that it was there to remind people of the victims, we probably have to write this one off to urban legend, as the original source could not be found to verify it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/5/2022 • 48 minutes, 3 seconds

As the world attention focuses on a soccer game, behind the surface is a disturbingly hidden suppression of a previously strong democracy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2022 • 50 minutes, 9 seconds

The average difference between the two major parties in the House of Representatives at any time in American history is sixty. That being said, there are a few times where one, two or nine seats separated the two major parties in Congress. Sometimes it was Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes it was Whigs and Democrats. You want to be speaker, you scramble. You make a deal with a Socialist, or a Know-Nothing. You find a guy who nobody hates and make him Speaker, hoping that person will listen to. Or you hold out for as long as you can ballot after ballot until people get tired. The record is the 65th Congress in 1917, where one seat separated the two. With a close house arriving in 2023, We look at American history for these times.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/28/2022 • 51 minutes, 21 seconds

A discussion of the 26th Amendment, the story behind it. John Lennon and his attempt to mobilize youth voting, and how Nixon countered it. And a look at the 18-29 year-old vote in recent elections including the recent midterm. Parts from 2013 and parts recorded this year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/21/2022 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds

A look at Susan B Anthony's Story, Also a Promising 1908 Candidate that was not too be.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/18/2022 • 21 minutes, 34 seconds

Call 2022 the Mick Jagger midterm - neither party got fully what they wanted. Both parties experienced win and losses. It is, so far, largely a "stave midterm" where the President's party lost less seats than expected - we've discussed a few of these on this podcast, and thus for the party expected to have lost seats a kind of win. Yet in this case as opposed to other 'stave' midterms, the President's Party looks like they will lose the house. So when is a win a win and a loss a loss? Is this like the 1970, 1990 or 1994 or 1974 elections? We discuss all this and talk about a midterm in the past.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/12/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes

a story of 1970's British politics. A change in country is behind every corner of the smoking room, every staircase, and every pint of ale. On benches red and green, members make moves. A pipe-smoker, a yacht champion, a grocer's daughter a former (maybe current?) spy.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkTo advertise: [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/6/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 9 seconds

The race for the Democratic Nomination in 1968 a complicated one, as one candidate would drop out and another die tragically. But for a while, with other candidates choosing not to enter primaries, the '68 Democratic primary became a fight between two concepts of being left in politics and two individuals that couldn't be more different. Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/31/2022 • 41 minutes, 49 seconds

Who built the modern world? The answer to that question might surprise you. (Or maybe not...) There's a long list of global innovators and trailblazers who’ve been erased from history books because of who they were; women, people of color LBGTQ and more. Each week They Did That tells one of these people's stories and how their life’s work has changed our lives for the better. Hosted by Takara Small. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/27/2022 • 9 minutes, 15 seconds

Nixon's first presidential midterm election (the election in which the House and Senate would be up for election) would turn out to be his last, but no one knew it at the time. Nixon tried something Presidents hadn't tried and took off in Air Force One to boost GOP candidates and attack hippie "thugs" across the country. He hoped to reverse the midterm trend. He did not, and he blamed bad audio and unhelpful political science. He may have done better than he thought.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/17/2022 • 45 minutes, 11 seconds

PROGRAM ONE: Ford's Bad Day - Dylan's Troll - Howard Cosell's PoliticsPROGRAM TWO: Skylab's Fall Nixon Shako Warriors - One Hit WonderPROGRAM THREE: High School Riot - Global Cooling and WarmingPROGRAM FOUR: Austin Gets WeirdWe are part of Airwave Media NetworkLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/2/2022 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 51 seconds

One reaction to the inflation stagnation and interest rates of the 1970's was to loosen up on a particular 'harmless' form of banking. It didn't work out so well.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/27/2022 • 50 minutes, 13 seconds

In the past 100 years, over 80% of the first term midterms went badly for Presidents, and their party lost seats.But in a few cases they did not.And a few times when they did, the result was very little real change or even a kind of win.A look at first term midterms during the Presidencies of Chester Arthur, Harding, FDR, GW Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.A combo of new and previously recorded MHCBUYP episodes reveals that while many first term midterms have devastated the President's plans, Presidents don't always do badly, there are 'stave' elections where Presidents have lost so little it's almost a win.And sometimes, a defeat has positive effects.Music by Josh Woodward and Lee Rosevere in this episode. Find them on the Free Music Archive websiteLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/23/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 12 seconds

The American system is one of divided and concurrent power. Where state starts and federal ends has not always been easy to clarify. A heat wave and a rebellion are among the many incidents that filled in the gaps.Most importantly, The Whiskey Rebellion went a long way to define federal and state powers. The actions taken by President Washington to enforce Federal tax authority, his behavior in regards to contentions of the Pennsylvania governor asserting state power, as well as the large size of the operation, all set important standards that help to define politics today.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast:[emailprotected]Support us on Patrion - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/18/2022 • 52 minutes, 39 seconds

In 1956 JFK made his first attempt for an Executive Branch office.Thank God he didn't win it, many thought afterward.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/4/2022 • 21 minutes, 45 seconds

Among other things, we owe the word 'Veep' to Alben Barkley.But more than that.The stumper, legislator and hog caller was a bridge between the 19th century and the 20th.Alben Barkley was an energetic if older Vice President and his actions, along with those of Truman, made the office of VP stronger than it was.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/31/2022 • 33 minutes, 1 second

The way Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. approached civil rights was not passive - it was in your face, give no "Fs" style as might be said today. He made some enemies but also got a lot done. In telling the story of Congress's seating powers we tell two stories. One of Emerson Etheridge, the Clerk of the House who during the Civil War attempted to use his powers to take over the House for him and his more conservative Unionist party and to steer policy away from Lincoln administration policy. It almost worked, was it not for a timely tip-off and quick thinking from Lincoln himself. Also the story of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. African-American Congressman whose flamboyant style as well as lingering scandals saw him not seated for Congress - until he took his case to the Supreme Court.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/29/2022 • 44 minutes, 50 seconds

A trip to DC inspires me. I try to talk about just about everything going on in this episode from midterms to J6 to Mara Lago to the Republic as it stands, to third parties in US politics, to former Presidents running to a town name in New York that I butchered. And in case we think things are crazy today, we look a bit at how a poet and a writer viewed Washington in 1963 and 1964.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/27/2022 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 58 seconds

Samuel Tilden is visited by throngs of supporters who want him to proclaim from his balcony that he is President. His answer takes place in a closed meeting, but we are privy to the moment thanks to a political reporter's account. 1876 is the key historical example of an election in American history so bitterly contested, with wrong committed on both sides: Democrats intimidated voters, Republicans responded by ignoring vote returns and merely claiming they won the states. It might have meant a return to rifles, at least in some areas of the country. It definitely was getting hot in D.C.William C. Hudson was able to witness the actions of that candidate when urged by partisans to start an extra-constitutional movement.Also a meeting between Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt witnessed by the same reporter.It finds T.R. not so happy with the result.From political reporter of the 19th century William C Hudson comes too stories with resonant power today.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkWant to advertise? [emailprotected]OUR SPONSOR IS SHORTFORM - To get a 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription, join Shortform through my special link,shortform.com/myhistoryor click the link in the description.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/21/2022 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds

Harry S. Truman thought a congressional committee ideally should be like a 'benevolent policeman' Not changing the facts but investigating them. He should know as he headed up one. Yet he was also critical of committees during his time that he felt did not meet the criteria. Since an investigation of a U.S. army defeat by a Native American tribe in the 1790's, to a look at an attack on the Capitol today, there is a voluminous history of Congressional committees. That makes even this hour and one half plus episode an incomplete history. We take a look at some of the committees, including HUAC the House Un-American Activities Committee, not only in the 1940's but it in it's earlies form under Martin Dies in the 1930, we take a look at Kefauver's crime commission that became a TV sensation and a Civil War era committee that is viewed by historians to have hurt the Union effort in that war.We are part of Airwave Media Network.OUR SPONSOR IS SHORTFORM - To get a 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription, join Shortform through my special link,shortform.com/myhistoryor click the link in the description.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/15/2022 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 56 seconds

The Elvis before Elvis. Making stores out of jukebox technology. World human rights. What a concept? From sending simian astronauts (read monkeys) into space, to the writing of Jack Kerouac - his roadtrip to Cassidy which will beget On the Road begins this year. And of course, there's Truman's election surprise.. We scour the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics archives to look at post war America in the year 1948. Knowing the atmosphere around 1948 in culture and in economics can shed light on Truman's surprise win.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkWant to advertise - [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/7/2022 • 40 minutes, 29 seconds

Last week we looked at Thomas Hendricks as part of our summer look at Vice Presidents. Today we look at his Indiana political opposite, Schuyler Colfax, GOP Vice President under Grant for his first term and [notably] not for Grant's second. Hero, smiler, progressive-minded politician, crook, orator, storyteller, friend to Lincoln.These are the labels that have been put on this forgotten Vice President of the United States.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/4/2022 • 55 minutes, 26 seconds

A bit about small money donors in history, and about Jimmy Carter's (Code name Dasher) 1976 run.A rebroadcast of an episode that seems apt as another campaign begins.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/2/2022 • 35 minutes, 52 seconds

As part of our summer series on obscure Vice Presidents, About Grover Cleveland's first vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks.The Indiana Democratic partisan, stumper, soft money ticket balancer and sometimes issue-straddler is the only Vice President who didn't become President who had his image on the currency.His views were moderate at his time and disturbing in modern times. He opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments but also opposed the Confederacy in the Civil War.And he was the highest American official to speak for independence for Ireland.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2022 • 56 minutes, 29 seconds

We will be on C-SPAN - check out Bruce Carlson live on C-SPAN on Saturday, July 30th at 9:15 AM.Bruce Carlson will be interviewed about his podcast and of course history and politics.Thanks to CSPAN for featuring us.We talk a bit on this quick update episode about midterms and inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/27/2022 • 6 minutes, 43 seconds

We are a month beyond of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, but it does seem appropriate to note an obscure player in the story. Frank Wills discovered a door had been deliberately held unlocked in the basem*nt of The Watergate Office Complex. The rest became history. But for Wills it was bittersweet. His intersection with history also became a story of race and the choppy waters of a "proto-reality TV" 1970's America.We also tell the story of an intern in the wrong place at the wrong time, though it was perhaps the right time who played a completely accidental role in thwarting a burglary.We are part of Airwave Media Networkwww.airwavemedia.comInteresting in advertising? [emailprotected]Music by Lee Rosevere - he's on bandcamp - https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/24/2022 • 30 minutes, 47 seconds

College costs have been an issue since the founding of the Republic, as we discuss in this issue, And equally, the desire to provide education to young minds has been strong. What's different about the era we live in is that college is closely associated with debt. Debt that cannot be removed by bankruptcy, and debt that is now considered a national problem.We look at student loans, their history, and on the way a bit of a history of American education. How Harvard isn't Harvard, in a manner of speaking. How Jefferson and Wilson got seriously involved in dorms. How Nixon created a monster, though we can say on purpose. How even education for GIs has been controversial, and how Senator Joe Biden played a role in the problem that President Joe Biden seeks to solve (or ameliorate).Thankful to Brian Stolk and Chris Novembrino who made contributions to research for this episode.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast Networkwww.airwavemedia.comInterested in advertising - [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/17/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 47 seconds

Not all midterms are bad for the President's party. It's just that, most of the midterms in history go against the party in The White House.. We'll discuss 1990's "Seinfeld Midterm," (the midterm about nothing, 1978 Carter first "not that bad" midterm, and others. We'll look at these and others where the party in the White House lost a lot less than the 31 seat average loss in the House, or gained seats and had a similar positive or not so bad result in the Senate.1990, that gave Democratic Giants Cuomo (father) and Bradley a big scare, but also scared GOP's Newt Gingrich.1978, Carter's first midterm which was not a gain nor a loss for Democrats and left Carter without a black eye he was expecting, and left control unchanged. A Democrat in Iowa loses his seat, while Al Gore enters Congress in Tennessee.Calvin Coolidge's 1926 loss of nine House seats which he interpreted as a victory (and why he wrote off the loss of six Senate seats).Nixon's 1970 midterm that was well less than the historic 31 seat loss in the house, with an extra plus that the GOP gained 2 seats in the Senate, and why he was still grumpy.The rare birds where the President Party gains seats in the House. It's happened 3 times from Wilson to Trump - 1934, 1998 and 2002. But hasn't happened in 20 years.We are part of Airwave Media Networkwww.airwavemedia.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/10/2022 • 35 minutes, 32 seconds

George B. McClellan Junior, son of the Union general and Mayor of New York City for two turn-of-the century terms is not history's usual voice, his takes are different. He saw Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson at their most base and political. He became mayor of the nation's largest city and talked about for its highest office, only to earn the displeasure of his sponsors for acting independently (and probably, prudently). He thinks at least one story about Lincoln was overplayed, he was against the United State's entry into World War I. Let's speak to McClellan Jr [ by reviewing his memoirs! ]. About turn of the century politics, political machines, being New York City major and son of famous Civil War General and Democratic candidate for President. . He also speaks to race relations in Congress in the 1890's, being a Northern Congressman in a Southern-dominated party, what it's like to fight the 'tiger' of Tammany Hall and other things.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/4/2022 • 49 minutes, 56 seconds

We are just a few days shy of the 210th anniversary of the War of 1812, the declaration of war by Congress was June 17th, 1812. And you know it because there are celebrations and events all across America.., Oh wait, there's not.The War of 1812 is a little understood war, known mostly for its ending battle in New Orleans and the song that originated from one of its battles. We look at the War of 1812 and one of the battles that was critical, but little talked about today. We talk about what happened that brought us to war?What were the significant battles?What don't people know about it? and what does it all mean for America today including direct influences on today's politics.From a previous episode, aired 10 years ago on the 200th anniversary, and worth revisiting.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/27/2022 • 45 minutes, 20 seconds

Pleased to introduce History is US. It is a 6-part documentary podcast from C13Originals Studios and Jon Meacham, the team behind the 2021 Webby Award-Winning Best Podcast Series It Was Said. Written and narrated by Dr. Eddie Glaude, award-winning author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, History is US journeys back to face the truths about race at the heart of the American story. From the aftermath of the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century struggle for freedom to the election of Barack Obama to the current day racial reckoning, History is US asks questions about who we are as a nation, what race might reveal about our current crisis and where we go from here. Through the voices of distinguished historians and scholars, this limited series gives listeners the background and education to understand how we got here … and how we can all use history to clarify the choices before us. As you enjoy this preview, please be sure to search for … History is US … available now for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/22/2022 • 4 minutes, 18 seconds

Stories of Presidential inflation fighting and fund-raising that seem to have a similar ring to today's events, in this episode. Nixon's plans to cut housing costs by reducing prices on the key element of housing inspires timber companies but riles environmentalist. Johnson uses his air fleet to shuttle the right people around to get the price of electrical wiring down. Eisenhower, Reagan, Hoover and Clinton raise the gas tax.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/20/2022 • 29 minutes, 26 seconds

Pleased to introduce History Daily podcast and feature two episodes. One on D.B. Cooper, the mysterious 1970's hijacker. And the second on the resolution of The War of 1812.Find out more about History Daily at https://www.noiser.com/history-daily:On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history.Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.So if you’re stuck in traffic, bored at work—wherever you are, listen to History Daily to remind yourself that something incredible happened to make that day historic.A co-production from award-winning podcasters Airship and Noiser.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/14/2022 • 39 minutes, 34 seconds

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!When Henry said it, he might have been committing treason.Yet the words also made him famous and indicated his superior bravery and patriotism to his country.The trouble is, that's often all he's remembered for. But without Henry the Revolution may not have succeeded and the Constitution may not look like it does. We get into why. From a 2017 interview - a bit about Patrick Henry and his times.Why the forgotten American "founder," one who was often too busy in his home state of Virginia to get nationally famous can provide us with American Revolutionary war stories and government founding narratives more interesting than just the Franklin, Jefferson and Washington stories we are accustomed to.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/13/2022 • 50 minutes, 7 seconds

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6/12/2022 • 36 minutes, 2 seconds

It's the classic story of the 1920 election, but it's probably not true, not in the way it's told at least - that Warren Harding was chosen in a smoke-filled room. Sure, there was probably smoking in a Chicago hotel room in 1920, Sure, there was some Presidential -picking chatter going on. But the story of a single, smoke-filled room that picked a President appears to be more of a legend. Not only that it may be a legend on purpose, or as we now say, fake news. And that may be on purpose, as it originated from a tall tale told to a reporter to make a candidate look good. This and how another fake news story was created to bring down Martin Van Buren's Presidency and other stories of politics, leftovers from a 2020 cast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/9/2022 • 21 minutes, 47 seconds

The Union threatened by legislative fiat, a Senator rose to reply to another. For Daniel Webster, it was a real comeback, What we might call a "zinger" today."Not Liberty First and Union Afterwards! ...but Liberty and Union now and Forever One and Inseparable," Though since it was a 19th century zinger, it took 4 hours to deliver the line. Still it would become some of the most famous oratory in Senate history.When South Carolina's Senator Robert Hayne spoke in the Senate in 1830 to criticize Massachusetts and its Senator Daniel Webster, his comments were governmental but his intentions were personal. Haynes was an ally of John Calhoun, and he sought to reduce that Senator's reputation and the New England influence in federal government with a stunning interpretation of how the Constitution should work. A state could interpret any law the way it wished, he argued. .And although several friends told him not to, Haynes aimed his remarks purposefully at the Senate's best Speaker.Then Webster replied, He defended the patriotism of his home state, attacked the logical points Hayne and made about a state's right to veto a federal law, and called for the Union to be cherished. Although he and Andrew Jackson were not allies, Daniel Webster's speech set the stage for the Jackson administration's position in the upcoming South Carolina tariff nullification crisis.His speech, and the resulting consensus of agreement in Congress with his side, also set standards for federal and state roles in government, and that still has lots of relevance today.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patreon - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/2/2022 • 56 minutes, 56 seconds

Lockdown drinks, Partygates, Boris, Brexit, Ukraine, Keir Starmer's wanting and Eurovision: An update on UK, Irish and Northern Ireland politics with Steve Byrne, formerly of What Am Politics Podcast (recently stopped but still with a huge archive). We talk about where things stand in British politics and Bruce and Steve agree with what's likely to happen with Boris. Steve has a favorite if something happens to Keir Starmer. Also Steve complements UK and Bruce Norway in their respective Eurovision teams, while both accept Ukraine's deserved win.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/1/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 23 seconds

Freedom of speech is boundless and yet has boundaries, according to our guest, Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law. She is the author of 'When Freedom Speaks' There are areas where the First Amendment of The U.S. Constitution protects, and areas where it does not. And this is no normal time. Social media, hate speech, violence in speech, lawsuits against media have all seemed to become more prominent in news. We discuss.Lynn Greenky's book WHEN FREEDOM SPEAKS can be found at:https://lynngreenky.com/books/when-freedom-speaks/We are part of Airwave Media NetworkTo advertise on the program, [emailprotected]Our sponsor for this program is Athletic Greens. Got to www.athleticgreens.com/myhistfor a special offer on their "nutritional insurance" AG1, a powder you drink every day to cover 75 vitamins, minerals, adaptagens and probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/22/2022 • 51 minutes, 57 seconds

Something happened in May 29th 1910. It had never happened before. And it has never (so far) happened again. To explain, we turn things over to Airwave Media network podcast Everything Everywhere Daily. Highly recommend subscribing to this podcast if you want to learn interesting facts about a new topic every day. Check out Everything Everywhere Daily's casts on solar power, the history of Friday the 13th (it will surprise you) and other topics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/18/2022 • 12 minutes, 14 seconds

We discuss the recent leaked SCOTUS interim decision, we discuss Casey, Roe cases, as well as abortion and anti-abortion politics of the 70s through the 90s. We also answer listener questions on - U.S. Grant and his image, favorite podcasts, which President to go on a bus ride with, why John Kerry lost and George W. Bush won in '04, Clinton impeachment, historical novels, First Past the Post voting systems, and conspiracy theories, oh and the signs of the end of the republic, all from MHCBUYP listeners.We are part of Airwave Media Network.Want to advertise - [emailprotected].Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/16/2022 • 1 hour, 55 minutes, 5 seconds

As Ken Burns moves on to Ben Franklin and Ernest Hemmingway, Vietnam and other topics. it's worthwhile to note how much of our history and historical sense on things, comes from his programs. As old VHS tapes fade, we look at the series that gave so many modern Americans their 'vision' of the Civil War. We take a look at his groundbreaking series, its impact, and how it looks amid today's controversies. In the process, Bruce sees commonality in Burns's approach and his own podcast.This was originally a premium or Patreon episode, now available to all listeners. Unlock content that is only available to Patreon supporters: Support the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcast.Our SPONSOR is Athletic Greens and their product AG1 - nutritional insurance for you, just take a scoop of AG1 in a glass of cold water each day. Isn't a diet or anything like that, doesn't replace your food, it ads to it. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit http://www.athleticgreens.com/MYHIST OUR other SPONSOR is EveryPlate.com - Meals Delivered to Your Door for $1.79 a meal. http://www.everyplate.com/beatup179--Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/9/2022 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds

A look at pre-war America, 1941, the passage of Lend-Lease, and the sinking of four ships in the Atlantic. Robin Moor, Greer, Kearny and Ruben James, each inflicting a body blow but not yet producing war. As Americans waited for war in one ocean, it came in another.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/25/2022 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 8 seconds

When America's politicians were scared of a edible spread.When James Blaine and Roscoe Conkling first squared off, setting in motion a political rivalry for the ages.And ranking the Secretaries of State. We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patrion - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/22/2022 • 41 minutes, 37 seconds

We talk about Adlai Stevenson, a candidate with a critical flaw and operating in a tough political environment, and the other people who have sought the Presidency but lost. Our guest is Peter Shea, author of In The Arena, His book looks not only at candidates, but at the memorials that have been made to honor them. Presidents get most of the statues, but there are some for the Presidential also-rans, such as the Stevenson statue in an Illinois airport.Trope Publishing [at www.trope.com] is the publisher of Shea's book they publish large print books with beautiful photographs.We are part of Airwave Media Network www.airwavemedia.comInteresting in advertising? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/18/2022 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds

We think about the American Revolution beginning in 1776. Our textbooks tell us that was the signing of the Declaration, thus the beginning, right? Not really. The events of 1774 are very important to understanding. Before we discuss the Congress that assigned Jefferson to write a Declaration and officially broke off relations with Britain, we should study the first congress that Jefferson was unable to get into.We do that in this episode, and look at a few decisions the Congress made and didn't make which determined the history afterwards. We also look at a seemingly minor decision of the 1774 Congress, in rejection a suggestion by Patrick Henry, which would turn out to have huge implications on our politics today.While we are a discussing a meeting that Jefferson was not at, and not yet enough of a name to be asked, perhaps, We do discuss him. Thomas Jefferson does participate, virtually. We also take a look at Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British North America, written in this year.--OUR SPONSOR is EveryPlate.com - Meals Delivered to Your Door for $1.79 a meal. http://www.everyplate.com/beatup179--This podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network. - www.airwavemedia.comInterested in advertising on this podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/11/2022 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds

Maybe, just maybe, a quick scheduling decision by an overworked and now obscure VP candidate in the 1970's changed politics in 2022. The current President thinks so. This, and a Reagan Ford ticket?How would that have worked?Lincoln appoints a judge, and other stories.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patreon - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/6/2022 • 47 minutes, 51 seconds

Where and when did Ukraine begin? What role did the Rus, the Cossacks, the post Tsarists and the Soviets play? What is Putin’s motive and what his seriously questionable historical justification? Why should we not say ‘The Ukraine?’ in discussions. How does nationalism play into world politics, and what place does it have in the future? These are all questions that Ben Sawyer, Professor at Middle Tennessee State University, podcaster and comedian is qualified to answer.Road to Now Podcast is at:https://www.theroadtonow.com/We are part of Airwave Media NetworkInterested in Advertising? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/30/2022 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 29 seconds

An army moves on its stomach, the saying goes. But a 19th century army also moved on its wood. A look at the environmental impact of the Civil War, particularly on forests. Millions of trees were needed for the conflict, to provide very temporary housing, roads, bridges, and fuel. They could stop cavalry charges, pretend to be cannons or provide a place to hide for a blue or grey soldier. No surprise one newspaper compared the armies to tree-eating monsters.This and a bit about William Howard Taft on Television. He didn't live to see it, but he and his family had an indirect impact on its history.We are part of Airwave Media Network www.airwavemedia.comInteresting in advertising? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/27/2022 • 42 minutes, 44 seconds

In the early 1990's, few outside the Balkans could foresee the brewing conflict as parts of a former communist country sought independence. The result was destructive war with multiple actors, civilian deaths and war crimes in a civilized area. In no area was this felt more than the city of Sarajevo, where the world had watched the Winter Olympics just 8 years before.We will relay a timely podcast from Ohio v. the World podcast from 2018 on the War in the former Yugoslavia, known as the Bosnian War. Bruce will jump in with some points about politics and national security in the 1990. Alex joins us to talk about current events.We also cover the world reaction and the Dayton Accords. We are pleased to have Alex Hastie on and his informative guest.We also get into a surprising connection to the creation of Ukraine and the question of intervention in Bosnia that came up at the time.Subscribe to Alex's podcast Ohio v..The World Podcast. The history of Ohio is so connected to the history of America that we've found no particular local interest about Alex's podcasts, they are about all the events in American history and they are well-done.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkInterested in advertising? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/14/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 33 seconds

The President Calvin Coolidge most know in history is the man who put American's business squarely with business and said very little Less known is that Coolidge suffered a great tragedy while in the White House, and it may have affected what kind of President he was. or not. We talk to David Priess. Chief Operating Officer of Lawfare Institute and co-host of The Chatter Podcast also the author of "How to Get Rid of a President," which deals with issues of inability to serve. We discuss how people should view Coolidge's time in office after the death of his son. Was it active, or deeply reduced by the tragedy?Interested in advertising? [emailprotected]We are part of Airwave Media Network.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/7/2022 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds

A bit about the brief Italian-Ethiopian War. The brief conflict between an aggressor and an outmatch defender presaged the Second World War. It also split the European countries, tested the boundaries of international collective security and created a heroic figure.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkIf you wish to advertise, please contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/1/2022 • 52 minutes, 51 seconds

A scandal of the 1880's involving Congress, an Attorney General and telephone company stock was big enough to nearly derail an inventor's legacy, and brought unwanted attention to the House and the Cleveland Administration. What does it say about congressional stock trading today?We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patrion - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/21/2022 • 46 minutes, 2 seconds

A look at prime ministers and their relationship with the United States, including one named Trudeau.Side B: Also a look at what might happen if tickets were reversed?We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patrion - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/17/2022 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds

Two Stories of Politics, Peace and Gold on this episode with two main topics."Side A" of this episode is about Ramsay MacDonald, the first Prime Minister of the UK for the Labour Party what was in the 1920's considered the most radical elements of society. He becomes the sometimes forgotten proponent of the special relationship with America."Side B" is about the 1982 Gold Commission, The obscure commission which during the Reagan administration and with the support of Alan Greenspan, put the nail in the coffin on 19th century ideas of the gold standard, but not without some consideration and a few arguments till today.Oh and we get into a U.S. operation known as Operation Goldfinger.We have a patreon at www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp if you'd like to support us.Music by Lee Rosevere's excellent Music for Podcast and Music for MallsRemember we are part of Airwave Media Network. Check out other podcasts at airwavemedia.comWant to advertise on this podcast - contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/14/2022 • 53 minutes, 23 seconds

You don't need social media to spread an idea. Or a small coin, in this case, which was representative of a badly thought-out get-rich scheme. We discuss the fad of 1935 that tied up post offices and its political implications. And Grover Cleveland takes on a powerful lobby group, while a city slowly discovers a lost subway system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/7/2022 • 1 hour, 13 seconds

A lot of listener topics, which we do our best to address. Not answered fully, but good questions where history can be of some help. We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkAdvertise on this podcast: [emailprotected]Support us on Patrion - patreon.com/mhcbuypMake a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWULearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2022 • 49 minutes, 27 seconds

Four stories of politics and history, starting with, the relationship between Bill Clinton and Orval Faubus. Clinton would see the segregation proponent Faubus on the television as young man and swell with rage, later he'd run against him. But the relationship, like anything with Clinton I guess, gets more complicated than that.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/30/2022 • 1 hour, 13 seconds

The story of the Challenger Explosion 35 years ago, along with the crowning of the USS Princeton during the Tyler administration and the resulting explosion as well as other Disasters.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/27/2022 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds

The Iran-Contra Scandal was a significant moment of the Reagan Administration and the 80's, but its rarely seen from the other country's side. In Iran, the event was not insignificant. A mix of unreleased content and some long-lost episodes that were quite popular in their time and still have some points today on this podcast.We are part of Airwave Media Network.Interested in advertising on the podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/23/2022 • 59 minutes, 31 seconds

This was a holiday that was not obtained without struggle including strikes, shaming and strange political bedfellows.In one of the first casts on MHCBUYP from 2007, We took a look at this history and some well-known and lesser known actors in its occurrence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/17/2022 • 13 minutes

timore Mayor Kurt Schmoke was called a madman, a "brilliant spokesman for a bad idea," and e even the most dangerous man in America when he called for drug legalization in the late 80s and early 90s. Those were forbidden ideas then. Yet Schmoke's statements seem prophetic now, and his radical plans are the basis of drug policy in many cities.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/10/2022 • 45 minutes, 16 seconds

Comments from Jan 7, 2021 about the events of 1/6 and the historical context of the Capitol and safety of the government on this episode, previously unreleased.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/5/2022 • 52 minutes, 32 seconds

Did New Jersey Save the Revolutionary Cause?Maybe. Amid a sea of troubles, irregular units fight off the British and make their stay in New Jersey less than hospitable. A bit about George Washington's offensive campaign to be sure that the new nation would not be garrisoned.And it happened in New Jersey (we should be clear with a large contingent of soldiers from all across the Eastern Seaboard).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/3/2022 • 26 minutes, 7 seconds

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12/27/2021 • 30 minutes, 22 seconds

It's easy to forget that Hessians were people too, with the way they are discussed in history.A bit about the German "mercenaries" for the British Side in the Revolution in this episode.We discuss their true purpose and story, the impact on the Revolution and American motives.How some Hessians switched sides, or just settled down in the country they were assigned to conquer.And we tell one Hessian's story, found in his diary by German relatives.Since Hessians figure prominently in the Battle of Trenton, a special treat: Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer make a brief appearance on the show.Their podcast Road to Now is a favorite of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. Check 'em out at Road to Now (www.roadtonow.com). And Road to Now Theology - https://www.theroadtonow.com/theology/We are part of Airwave Media Network.To advertise on this podcast, contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/24/2021 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds

We look at a unsung Revolutionary War battle, The Battle of Camden, a loss for the American side that would nonetheless have some positive long-term effects, and demonstrate a common theory about the Revolution is wrong.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/20/2021 • 36 minutes, 12 seconds

Through most of American history, calling someone a Cicero was the highest democratic honor. John Adams wrote of the Roman orator, that “as all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should have great weight.”Thomas Jefferson said Cicero was “the father of eloquence and philosophy”John Quincy Adams dramatically said that if he did not have book of Cicero at hand it was having to live without "of one of my limbs.”And a young Abraham Lincoln reading from a borrowed library benefited greatly from his works, as well as others.We talk to Ryerson University professor of politics and author of Words on Fire Rob Goodman about these topics.Through close readings of Cicero – and his predecessors, rivals, and successors – political theorist and former speechwriter Rob Goodman tracks the development of this ideal, in which speech is both spontaneous and stylized, and in which the pursuit of eloquence mitigates political inequalities.For Cicero, speech was essential.More than just talking or Cicero referred to speech as “what has united us in the bonds of justice, law, and civil order, this that has separated us from savagery and barbarism”. Speech was to Cicero a sign of humanity’s inherently communal and cooperative nature and one of our greatest tools in creating a prosperous life for ourselves."Be no Atticus," John Quincy Adams told his good friend Charles Sumner when he thought he got to reclusive and too bookish and didn't get out there in the debate.He almost could of said, "be more like Atticus's friend Cicero!"Cicero took part in debate, spoke to defend the republic and celebrated those who did. Rob Goodman's book Words on Fire is available here - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/words-on-fire/FEB517ABF09F8A067773B2F563F45150We are part of Airwave Media Network. Check out the other shows there - airwave media.comAdvertise on our podcast - [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/17/2021 • 40 minutes, 24 seconds

Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/13/2021 • 47 minutes, 53 seconds

Office or incumbent? The office has been described as a nullity and a spare tire. The historic incumbents include many 'also-rans' and some did very little to speak of in office, or anywhere.. A few did not speak to the President while in office. One VP was described as a "smiling mediocrity" (and that was supposed to be a good thing). So can you judge an occupant?The media certainly thinks so, and has made Kamala Harris a topic of attention. Is this fair? On one hand, there's an overall critical tinge to coverage that seems to have started January 21st. On the other there are some historic facts behind it, as Harris has the best predictable chance of becoming President of any modern VP, and comes from less years experience in Washington than recent incumbents. Can history add anything to such a partisan divide question?Spurred on by an article from Bill Scher in Washington Monthly - check it out [https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/11/26/vice-presidents-get-no-respect-kamala-harris-is-no-exception/] we look at this question. Is it, as Scher suggests, the office and we need to cut its newest incumbent slack? Or does the incumbent drive? Is there any way to judge a Vice President? Short answer - We think there can be VP success and failure, but in the end, it's a political job with political goals, and that's what watchers of politics should be focused on.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/11/2021 • 41 minutes, 43 seconds

A look at not only the Spanish-American War but the events leading up to it, including those events in Spanish politics that made tough talk as desirable in The Cortez as it was in the Congress. A look at the drift of American projection of power in the Harrison and Cleveland administrations. How McKinley wins an election on curing depression and the money supply, but his Presidency quickly is defined by foreign policy as the U.S. begins a war with Spain. Also the aftermath of that war, and the lack of results in the decade for African Americans. Finally, and of course, Roosevelt. And reflections on the role and proper historical position of Roosevelt.Music by Lee Rosevere from his Music for Podcasts - (why does his 'Music for True Crime Podcasts work for a podcast on imperalism? Hmmm.) check him out on Bandcamp.com. Lee Rosevere.This concludes our series on the 1890's. If you liked it PLEASE TELL OTHERS!!We are part of Airwave Media NetworkWant to advertise on the podcast? - contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/6/2021 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 43 seconds

Bob Dole's passing has us thinking again about the fateful 1988 election and its consequences. Extra's from a series of podcasts we did on that election that were not aired to the main audience. After the series of episodes on the 1988 election, Bruce discussed the making of those episodes and some leftover stories that didn't make it in. Among them - the Kitty Dukakis story, one that focuses needed attention on the personal toll of politics. Also a re-emphasis on the forgotten fact that it was Dukakis who beat Biden in that primary, in a way that made Biden supporters mad - and they let him know it. Also more about Gary Hart, and what may have been the reason for his woes, put together decades after the election.Among the Stories:Biden Supporters Fumed at Mike DukakisWhat if Dole won the 88 New Hampshire Primary?Gary Hart and Donna Rice Story - RNC Setup?Gary Hart The Charming Anti-Charmer?Gephardt's Son and What He Went ThroughBaby Boomers as 'New Force' in 1988 Politics?Jesse Jackson - Pioneer Campaign for Obama?Or Not?Dukakis After the ElectionKitty Dukakis and Her StoryWhat 1988 Says About Multi Candidate Elections.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/5/2021 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds

The nation goes to Mars. In a book, at least. A look at the cultural 1890's decade.Science fiction, A new form of voiced patriotism,Exploding growth in cities.And an American Winston Churchill.Music by the excellent Kevin MacLeod (find him on free music archive.org) and Lee Rosevere (find him on Bandcamp).We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkWe have a patreon if you'd like to support us; www.patreon.com/mhcbuypWant to advertise on this podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/29/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 6 seconds

In this second look at the decade of the 1890's. Economic disaster and marching citizens. Pitchfork and tin making rebellion. Competing metals and ideas. An election only makes clearer the divisions in society - it does not create them. An author struggle to captures these modern conflicts and develop a new fairy tale.Music by the excellent Kevin MacLeod (find him on free music archive.org) and Lee Rosevere (find him on Bandcamp).We are part of Airwave Media Podcast NetworkWe have a patreon if you'd like to support us; www.patreon.com/mhcbuypWant to advertise on this podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/22/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 13 seconds

How did things get modern in America? The popularity of a color derived from coal tar is just one of the ways. A look at the 1890's, a decade where America developed in many ways. A look at the 1890's, a decade where America developed in many ways. This is part of a FOUR PART series of podcasts on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. X-rays, flying machines, oyster pirates and basketball. Also strikes, war, populism and long-forgotten literature. How did things get modern in America? The popularity of a color derived from coal tar is just one of the ways. Of course Modern doesn't mean all upside, necessarily, and we get into the conflicts during the time. This is part of a FOUR PART series of podcasts on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics.Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypMusic by the excellent Lee Rosevere -https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-podcasts-6We are part of Airwave Media Network.Interested in advertising on the podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/15/2021 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 20 seconds

It's the most abstract of the economic stats and yet, it's the most personal. It's the one that often has turned Presidents into crusaders. And sometimes turned the American people into the critical actors, volunteers or even 'the problem'. Pins, gardens and tough talk on this episode about Presidents, shrinking dollars, and rising prices.We are part of Airwave Media Network.Interested in advertising on the podcast? Contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/4/2021 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds

Auctioning people for paid jobs, Resisting smoking and liquor bans, Actors in trouble, Fistfight in Congress, Prosperity around the corner and News articles spreading fear and encouraging violence. With Jon Blackwell, Wall Street Journal Editor and creator of the Twitter handle This Day in 1921, we discuss significant news stories of 1921 that have meaning for today involving racism, poor economic times, censorship, government mandates and attacks on science, among others.Jon's twitter publishes every day with a news story from 1921.He's also the author of Notorious New Jersey.We did a 1921 episode earlier in the year, with Jon we cover new ground.Follow Jon on Twitter at - @100YearsAgoTodayNewsSupport the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypMusic by Lee RosevereEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/1/2021 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 28 seconds

Jose Huizar grew up in Boyle Heights – a working-class Latinx neighborhood in L.A.Eventually, he became their councilperson. He ran on promises of solidarity and community. And, for the most part, people trusted Huizar... until the day the FBI raided his home and offices, looking for evidence of corruption.The Feds would go on to say that Huizar led a criminal enterprise based in city hall. He stands accused of taking bribes from luxury developers as his constituents were displaced from their homes.This season of Smoke Screen is a collaboration with grassroots media organization L.A. TACO. In this 9-part investigative series, journalist and host Mariah Castañeda investigates how Huizar got the power to do what he did, and how the community that raised him paid the price. Smoke Screen: The Sellout is available now wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/26/2021 • 14 minutes, 51 seconds

Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren's policy of Indian population removal, which lead to the Trail of Tears and thousands of deaths, was not uncontested or passively allowed at the time. Nearly half of Congress opposed it, as did petition writers all over the nation.So did one of the President's former friends and of course, most of the elected representatives of the Cherokee people.These debates happened not in modern times but then.One of Jackson's friends voted against so he would not be Ashamed in the Day of Judgment and sought the Presidency in his stead.Support our sponsor Inkl - www.inkl.com/my-historySupport the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypMusic by Lee RosevereEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastWe are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network. - airwavemedia.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/25/2021 • 48 minutes, 34 seconds

Vice President under Monroe, Tompkins was a popular populist republican governor of New York and symbol of young America.But he had a problem.Tim Pearson's book on Vice Presidents is Second Fiddle - https://www.amazon.com/Second-Fiddle-Strange-Elected-President/dp/0692877401/This episode's sponsor - Light Stream credit card consolidation www.lightstream.com/myhistAnd inkl.com a unique news service that helps you get through news paywalls. inkl.com/my-historyWant to advertise on the program? sales@advertisecastWe are part of Airwave Media network.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/18/2021 • 36 minutes, 11 seconds

We look at the Anti-Masonic Party of the 1820s and 1830s from backwater movement to national stage and its lasting influence on one of the two major parties today, and on political conventions. Was it truly a conspiracy theory-based movement? What can it say about today's politics. And a candidate who didn't want to run for President. We look at all that.Support the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypMusic by Lee RosevereEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/11/2021 • 42 minutes, 34 seconds

About Presidents and their parties, particularly situations where a former President who was not re-elected is still in the political picture. There can be some interesting challenges for the party. We look at four cases in history, Gerald Ford's golfing and soft-pedaling in 1980, Truman's attack on a front-runner in 1956, Bush's largely successful exeunt from the stage in 1993 and Carter's absence in 1981-3 which still became an invisible influence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/4/2021 • 45 minutes, 29 seconds

We take a look at a few topics, the "Joe Manchins" of History, Senators who have disagreed with their own parties Presidents, while also helping in some ways. FDR, Clinton and Lyndon Johnson dealt with their own versions of the dynamic in politics today. We are also reminded in telling this story that Clinton had a 50-50 Senate, in a form. And a bit about British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his idea for a University of The Air, long before today's online learning.Support the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypMusic by Lee RosevereEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/4/2021 • 54 minutes, 5 seconds

WIth Matthew from the Political Darkside podcast, Bruce discusses Joe Biden, his story, and the issues of crime, business, busing and more. Find Matthew's podcast at www.politicaldarkside.comSponsored by Conflict of Nations App - Check out Conflict of Nations WW3 Player to Player Strategy GameSupport the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/27/2021 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 27 seconds

Of the many things Grover Cleveland is remembered for, his still extant wedding cake stands out for the few visitors to his birthplace home in Caldwell, N.J.He's not a President much remembered though podcasts have revived knowledge about him a bit.We discuss Cleveland, his legacy, and a great fight of the 1880's that determined executive power.We also look at another President's argument for why Cleveland should be remembered.We also look at Lincoln's coat, Hayes's oysters and dominos, Washington's teeth and the short military career of William Jennings Bryan.Support the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/20/2021 • 58 minutes, 4 seconds

Andrew Carnegie went from a bobbin-boy child worker to becoming the richest man in America. He also inspired generations of philanthropists, and his money is still at work today educating minds, funding books and pushing for world peace. But his story raises questions. His attitude towards unions was friendlier than most business people of his day on paper, but his actions differed from his words. And even in his philanthropy, is the model of giving after successful business a good one? We look at these questions, and tell his story.For advertising inquiries please contact [emailprotected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/14/2021 • 36 minutes, 41 seconds

How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift his focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly funny seven episode series about people who wake up on 9/12 having to navigate a new, radically altered world. A teenager gets caught up in an out-of-control conspiracy theory that he helped start. A Pakistani business owner finds hundreds of his Brooklyn neighbors are disappearing. Joke-writers at The Onion must figure out just how soon is “too soon”? 9/12 asks what it all means. We know what happened on 9/11. But what happened on 9/12 toalter our memory and our perspective forever?Listen to 9/12:http://wondery.fm/9_12_MyHistoryBeatUpAll seven episodes of 9/12 are available to stream now on Amazon Music or Wondery+. Episodes will release weekly everywhere starting September 8th.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/9/2021 • 6 minutes, 46 seconds

Nixon's first bombing campaigns had the names of mealtimes which seem to also correspond with the years of his first term: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972.In this episode we look at Nixon, Kissinger and the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War.In addition to providing some additional context for the Saigon 1975 situation so much in the news today, we revisit whether the accord was a sham peace or a true deal.The deal left hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in South Vietnam as U.S. troops exited.Could a better deal have been etched?Or could the same deal have been made sooner.And what about those leopard spots?The great debate over the negotiating table?and the dingy carpet?All this and more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/6/2021 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 6 seconds

With podcast host of Revolutions and History of Rome Mike Duncan, we talk about the Marquis de Lafayette. He left an aristocratic life in France to fight in the American Revolution, and did so with bravery and zeal. He remains the central figure of American-French cooperation. Mike talks about Lafayette's role not just in American history but in French history. He also talks about his book, Hero of Two Worlds. We also chat about Napoleon and Lafayette, French generals and other stories. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Chris Novembrino.Sponsored by Ground News AppSupport the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuypEmail[emailprotected]to enquire about advertising on the podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/30/2021 • 53 minutes, 47 seconds

We look at the 1975 Operation Frequent Wind - the evacuation of Saigon and the comparisons to today's events, the politics at the time and now and more.Also - FOR UNBIASED NEWS (or to have a fair chance at seeing the bias), download the app at Ground.News/myhistory. Support our sponsor.The first thing to know is, despite the image of failure, those days were an operational success in a sea of bad policy decisions. In this episode we look at that and: the original plan that was ditched, what Marines on the ground that day said, how it felt for a journalist, effects on the '76 election if any, the reluctant ambassador, 2022 midterms and burning US dollars.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/19/2021 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds

Break your news bubble and see biases in coverage clearly -Download our sponsor Ground News's App at - Ground.News/myhistory All about Signers in this one. We talk to Jason Petri, listener to MHCBUYP about his playing card deck project, and we discuss: :the lives of the signers What can Button Gwinnett, Stephen Hopkins or Thomas Heyward Jr. do for us? The importance of the Declaration, even when the country hasn't lived up always to the aspiration (with help from a former president for a good interpretation).The history of the actual document, and how itwas saved from British capture.A reminder - we are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network - Check out great shows at airwavemedia.comSongs by Lee Rosevere - https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ and Kevin MacLeod who has excellent jazz music opens our episode up.https://kevinmacleod.bandcamp.com/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/16/2021 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 57 seconds

Opponent of the filibuster and sometimes a royal pain for the President he served under, Dawes is probably one of the most accomplished Vice Presidents of the United States. In his life time he would win a Nobel Peace Prize, posthumously he would win a Grammy. Friend to both William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, a banker who could play that piano. We don't know him as well today but in his times, he was oft larger than life.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/9/2021 • 49 minutes, 18 seconds

Stories of baseball, banking and love.More from our episode on airline deregulation.What was left on the legal pad and didn't make it into the episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/3/2021 • 15 minutes, 7 seconds

A Democratic President and a liberal Senator push a free-market reform in the late 1970s that affects us all today. We look at the story of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.Among the topics - legroom politics, cold fried chicken, consumer rights, cargo politics, Carter's legislative ability or lack of it, champagne denial, mistreated pets, and the deregulator now wearing a robe at SCOTUS.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/2/2021 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds

We are joined by Richard Bey of "The Richard Bey" show and "People are Talking" fame for a talk on a lot of things.We are pleased to have Richard as a long time listener of the show.Richard takes aim at the current depiction of cancel culture as a new thing, which is especially easy for him as he was canceled himself at least twice.Richard and Bruce also talk Iraq War, the 2016 election and what happened, and other topics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/28/2021 • 1 hour, 59 seconds

Bruce reviews favorite old clips and speaks to two listeners from all the way back at the beginning, Kevin Willis and Tom Morris.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/25/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 3 seconds

A look at the first Afghan War, that the Soviets found themselves in for strange reasons.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/16/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 57 seconds

Vaccine history, acceptance and denial.The man who saved Boston and never got credit.Law and the citizen and medicine.FDR's polio - if it was polio - and what it meant for America.From 2014, with an update for our times.And we encourage all - Get your COVID-19 shot when eligible.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/15/2021 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 25 seconds

You know about the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, the minutemen and their trifold hats and muskets.But how much do you really know about the day's events?This episode we look at the day of fighting at Concord, when a British raiding party turned into a display of American resistance and a trial run for American independence.We look at the stories from that day, and deal with some misconceptions and discuss the impact of the American origin story.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/13/2021 • 38 minutes, 55 seconds

We speak to Dennis Kucinich about his fight to save Cleveland's municipal power system as mayor of the city in 1970's. He risked not only his career but his life during that battle, and he gives us some of the details from his new book -"The Division of Light and Power"Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/12/2021 • 42 minutes, 52 seconds

We know Jefferson and Franklin, but what about the other signers - John Hart, John Penn, William Williams, Richard Stockton, William Whipple, John Morgan, William Floyd, George Read and othersLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/4/2021 • 5 hours, 25 minutes, 57 seconds

One violent event, captured in the best media technologies of its time and brought to American living parlors, completely changed American politics during the Reconstruction period.A convention at the stately Mechanics' Institute in New Orleans, determined to create a new constitution where all races could vote, was forcefully ended by police in what investigators could only describe as a massacre.We discuss the event, the reasons behind it, and how it affected political power for ten years.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/17/2021 • 39 minutes, 54 seconds

This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over the years, and the reactions of Congress to them. Why Lincoln and Jefferson Davis found common ground on one issue about D.C. and neither got their wish. And about the rioting soldiers that may have spurred the whole idea of a federal city on a hill in the first place. Plus, about that guy who lived in a tree.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/14/2021 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 21 seconds

Known for being Lincoln's first VP and dropped from the ticket, Hamlin was actually as well-known as the President he served under.He was a fighter against the expansion of slavery and an important Senator.It was not out of the question that Hamilin could have been in Lincoln's spot.History has forgotten, but we'll give him a few words in this look at Vice Presidents this summer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/10/2021 • 46 minutes, 11 seconds

For Wall Street Insiders, Black Monday was not the worst day. The next day, Terrible Tuesday was an agonizing test of the financial system. As part of our series on the commercial history of the United States, we examine the events of Tuesday the 20th. And we look at the history of insurance in America, the reasons there is a stock market, what was learned and not learned from 1987 and a few other things. A Note - We are pleased to be part of the Airwave Media Network.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/2/2021 • 55 minutes, 26 seconds

Lincoln's turbulent period as President-elect also featured a novel twist: a thirteen-day train ride through the states that had cast their votes for him, and two that had not.He countered large cheering crowds and some security risks, while he managed to avoid opining on the fast-paced events of the day and to avoid compromising with violence.We look at some of his speeches, how he handled being President-elect, and the last-minute change and secret voyage conducted for safety reasons.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/1/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 26 seconds

Worried hands gripping phones. Black screens with green digits, going downward. Faces pressed against fancy brokerage office glass. Busy signals. The history of Black Monday 1987 crash and the history of what came before it, from stock commodities and even butter and eggs. This is the first of what will be a two-parter on commerce, risk and the attempts to control that risk, insurance. All of it came together on one day in 1987 which made history, but has been somewhat forgotten about. Don't forget to try out our sponsor Betterhelp - http://www.betterhelp.com/beatupLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/23/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 49 seconds

5,000 or more people died in Philadelphia between August and November of 1793.Thousands of others, including the President, fled the capital of the country.In this recast of a 2014 episode, we look at this epidemic and the reaction to it at the time, what healthcare looked like in the 1790's, and other topics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/21/2021 • 40 minutes, 1 second

In this episode, no big deal, we just tackle about every significant problem we have in our politics today. norm-breaking, free-speech and free-speech limits, threats and violence, double impeachments, pushing envelopes and reverse virtue signaling is all part of this episode. Also, Abigail Adams, a treaty won by a forceful speech, a shadowy organization rising up to oppose a President's agenda, two Founders debate and trade charges of hypocrisy. And a bowling ball. Lee Rosevere -music.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/8/2021 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 23 seconds

Stealth ads. Secret advice. Kids in uniforms.Soft money and hard choices in the information age.As we discuss in this cast, a Presidential election was almost completely settled a year before it happened.Some knew an election was going on and some didn't.In a time when money was soft and people said things like: 'This website's taking a long time to load because it has a picture,' we look at Clinton's not-so-certain re electionLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/1/2021 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 24 seconds

A Plane Crash, a Taxi Driver's panic and more. What didn't make it into the 'Black Monday' and Terrible Tuesday casts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/1/2021 • 25 minutes, 20 seconds

More about New Orleans Mayor Monroe and Louisiana's first black lieutenant governor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/22/2021 • 19 minutes, 20 seconds

Edward Stettinius, Jr. served a short but important time as Secretary of State serving F.D.R. and Truman. Without him, there may not have been a UN. And because he got very little credit, he was able to be successful. With journalist Bill Scher, host of the "When America Worked" Podcast we discuss Stettinius and pragmatists in general, and Bill talks about the new podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/20/2021 • 55 minutes, 50 seconds

In this episode, we speak with Cheryl Woodruff Brooks, author of Washington was a cosmetic entrepreneur whose company turned her into one of of America's first black millionaires. She was founder and president of Apex Enterprises consisting of Apex Beauty Colleges, Apex Publishing Company, Apex News & Hair Company, Apex Laboratories and Apex Drug Company. Offices were located in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Newark, Richmond, Brooklyn, Washington, DC, Baltimore and Atlantic City.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/5/2021 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds

We know the globe-running, meeting master Vice President Cheney, but did you know his parents were hardcore Democrats?or that he thought his father turned into a bird (albeit at a pretty young age).As we discuss with Tim Pearson, author of Second Fiddle, a book about Vice Presidents.Cheney's story goes from the football field, to Yale, to the slammer and eventually to the Oval Office.As part of our summer Vice Presidents series, we discuss Cheney before the first Bush Presidency.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/31/2021 • 38 minutes, 17 seconds

Events 100 years ago have nothing at all to do with today's events, unless you consider new technologies changing the pace of life, the immigration issue, a new administration changing messaging and policies, racism and racial violence, crime, labor struggles, international conflicts and government spending on the poor.And,new kindsofpoems.(Music by Paul Whiteman band (from 1921) and Lee Rosevere )Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/24/2021 • 40 minutes, 45 seconds

The Constitution contains two possible forms of presidential removal outside of election, one is the much-discussed impeachment process. The other is the 25th Amendment's fourth section. We discuss 25 Section 4 with Professor Brian C. Kalt, Professor of Law & Harold Norris Faculty Scholar at Michigan State University, including how the amendment works, its uses and its common misunderstanding by the public and Hollywood writers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/19/2021 • 49 minutes, 40 seconds

The 13th Vice President of the United States remains obscure. Where King's name does come up, it's often with the wrong picture. Or he's confused with Rufus King. According to our guest, Thomas Balcerski, Associate Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut University, he should be in the discussion. Balcerski is author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). We get into the Presidential Ratings Game too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/18/2021 • 46 minutes, 22 seconds

A look at Governor Andrew Cuomo's father Mario, a classic tale of American politics and the potential campaign for President that he ran.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/15/2021 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds

In 1892, a dreaded disease caused a President to navigate local health situation and created a new law.We look at the precedent-setting quarantine order of the 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison.While we are at it, we look at Harrison's presidency, policies, his influence on future events, his failed attempt to obtain fair elections for both African Americans and city dwellers, and how he annoyed Theodore Roosevelt.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/12/2021 • 43 minutes, 45 seconds

A look at the famous series of letters between Jefferson and Adams.Friends as young diplomats, they 'unfriended' and 'refriended' from the time of their Presidencies and politics to their old age.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/11/2021 • 53 minutes, 46 seconds

It was a strange series of event that lead to the King of Rock and Roll and President Nixon to meet at the White House.A look at a frenetic day at the Nixon White House and the reasons behind the meeting.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/10/2021 • 30 minutes, 31 seconds

From the early attempts to depict Washington, to the first Congressional attempts to block Confederate statues, to today's debate.In this episode Bruce examines the history behind statues in America, and Bruce looks at every debating point and angle he can think of regarding Confederate statues, the dates of their construction and their removal. Please remember our sponsor Mack Weldon and their great clothes - www.mackweldon.comUse promo code "history" for 20% off.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/10/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 3 seconds

Attack videos, apology tours, inoculation ads, presidential circles and glib phrases make up the scuttle for the Presidential race in 1988.Part II of our series.Biden's all, Dole's rise, Hart's second coming andthe 3x5 card that won the race.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/5/2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 21 seconds

The quote from Atwater sums up the race 31 years ago nicely. Gephardt eyes a rusty belt. Dole proto-snarks, Jackson thunders, Biden runs a post route, Bush looks for his soul. Dukakis tries error free ball. Simon finds his inner bow tie and Bruce Babbit also runs. Find leadership where you can. What could it possibly say about today's times?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/4/2021 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 10 seconds

Nixon Goes to China, and what it might mean for the Iran DealLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/19/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 48 seconds

A look at the Senator's father, his 1968 run, and time as HUD secretary.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/18/2021 • 18 minutes, 35 seconds

Who was Chester Arthur's secret pen pal? How did Herbert Hoover spend his last day in office? What was McKinley's obscure accomplishment? What was Rutherford B. Hayes passionate hobby? What event hurt Taft's Presidency from the get-go? How did Martin Van Buren contribute to today's politics? For Presidents Day, a conversation with Jeremy Anderberg of The Art of Manliness website and podcast and ReadMoreBooks.co newsletter. Music -"Swallow" by Pistol JazzLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/14/2021 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 50 seconds

A look at Harding's Vice President and future PresidentLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/1/2021 • 29 minutes, 8 seconds

From Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from a previously run episode, the President's power to pardon is examined.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/17/2021 • 29 minutes, 24 seconds

The 1969 occupation of the former federal prison by Native American activists was the beginning of a movement and a shift in perception that lives on today. http://www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com/alcatraz.mp3 We discuss: Why Alcatraz? The 1973 Standoff at Wounded Knee,South Dakota Vine Deloria and “Custer Died for Your Sins” and Other Items. We are part of Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.comFor advertising information please contact [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/14/2021 • 50 minutes, 50 seconds

A look at the Senator who tried to end the Electoral College and the original reasons for it.It has as much to do with 1969 as it does with 1787Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/13/2021 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds

We speak often of Democracy, but do we really know what it is?We point to Athens as an example.But what was Greek Democracy really like?A conversation with Dr. Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, author of "Democracy: A Life."A lot of topics here and while we chose not to break it up in 2 parts, you might want to listen to it in 2 parts.Music from Lee Rosevere on this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/9/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 45 seconds

a bit about Adlai Stevenson I who had an opposite ideology from the President he served.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/6/2021 • 48 minutes, 4 seconds

Presidential Scandals from Nixon to GrantLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/4/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 4 seconds

Story of a very young cold warrior for peace.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2021 • 17 minutes, 9 seconds

Host Bruce Carlson reflects on 14 years of the podcast, provides a show update.Plus some listener questions on masks then and now, Presidents leaving (or not leaving) the Oval, and Kennedy's 1960 election and allegations of fraud.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/31/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 15 seconds

The invention of radio and government intervention in recreation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/31/2020 • 32 minutes, 10 seconds

Nothing starts a good presidential transition like charges of treason, and thus it was in 1968 that a tense election ending started a transition between Presidents of two parties.Yet all things considering, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson's transition is considered one of the better ones.We also look at contemporary news stories, and stories of other presidential transitions. Some mysteries examined, and some LBJ-Nixon phone calls analyzed. Lee Rosevere - musicLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/29/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 33 seconds

To sell the Constitution, advocates had to get around some reasoned arguments, and also some wild conspiracy theories. How they did it could be a lesson for future political battles.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/25/2020 • 49 minutes, 37 seconds

Jessica Weisberg has traced Ben Franklin's early advice-writing, read the "Lord Chesterfield" letters that early Americans read to learn how to act, attended Dale Carnegie workshops and spoke with Miss Manners all in a quest to track down why Americans are so obsessed with advice.We speak with Jessica about her book "Asking For a Friend" and discuss whether we've gotten far away from Dale Carnegie or Chesterfield, the selfless advice of our early American ancestors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/18/2020 • 49 minutes, 7 seconds

America's fascination then and now with sea rebels, sea dogs, privateers, smugglers, and pirates by other names is pretty clear.Books, movies and video games with pirates sell.We talk with pirate expert and historian Rebecca Simon, Ph.D. and author of "Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever"We talk about connections between the American Revolution and piracy, and the different ways pirates were viewed in Britain and America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/17/2020 • 52 minutes, 27 seconds

We look at the Maine and Nebraska congressional district system of Presidential elector assignment and its history as both the NE2 and ME2 went for different candidates than the statewide winner for the first time in history.That and other 2020 Election thoughts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/12/2020 • 39 minutes, 41 seconds

In this episode we look at an enduring mystery, one that didn't matter too much in the 1960 election but has since taken on significance. Could it be that Kennedy lost, and Nixon won, the popular vote nationally in 1960. We looked at it a decade ago, and at that time MHCBUYP declared that Richard Nixon may have won the pop vote.Now, we think it's complicated.But still possible.This, plus the "Gumps of History" and other listener questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/7/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 33 seconds

In this episode we look at the history of child labor laws and apply the story of this practice, from all angles, to today's politics.originally recorded in 2014, as relevant today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 10 seconds

Trump's loss and the ensuing court fight is getting the news.There were a few other historical things to note about the election.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/1/2020 • 26 minutes, 41 seconds

He's the President that is on the bottom of most lists.But why?And is it fair?What did he think about his place in history?We talk about POTUS 15 and look at the events of the run-up to the American Civil War, and we hear from Buchanan, and get his take on his Presidency, through his memoirs.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/26/2020 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 57 seconds

a bit about Trump's ex-Presidency and Other ThingsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/26/2020 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 16 seconds

We know that on May 4th, 1970, fifty years ago, four students were killed by the National Guard at Kent State in Ohio. What is not always known is everything that happened after that. Opinion wasn't universally with the slain students, the school had little interest in memorializing and the criminal justice system focused not at those who killed students but at the students themselves. We talk to Howard Ruffner, author of "Moments of Truth" and an eyewitness to the events.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/17/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 9 seconds

Both Blaine and McKinley dodge possible challenges to their Presidential hopes from military generals.But in different ways.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/9/2020 • 19 minutes, 12 seconds

We discuss the tight election that elected the first Democratic President in 25 years and some comparisons and contrasts to the current election.A President's umbrella, salutes for his "big foot," chain-armor clad parades, and the importance of a concern for the "general weal." all in this episode. Music by Stephan Siebert, About Life.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/9/2020 • 48 minutes, 41 seconds

The 1796 Presidential Election was America's first with two candidates with true campaigns.Before it was over there would feature negative ads, misconstructions of candidate statements, foreign interference and backlash to that interference, and election count disputes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/30/2020 • 37 minutes, 35 seconds

A candidate who didn't run for President.A candidate who ran, but didn't know he was running.A candidate who didn't want to run, but had no choice.A candidate who ran without seeming to run, and a candidate who ran but died before the votes were counted.A history of running for President, not running for President and running for President in the worst way.Grab a mug of hard cider and enjoy the tales of infinite jest and educational interest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/25/2020 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 26 seconds

Abraham Lincoln running against...Sam Houston? It is not a far-fetched idea that Abraham Lincoln might have faced Texas hero Sam Houston in the election of 1860, as hewas under serious consideration to be one of the candidates in what became a four-way Presidential election of 1860.And he would have been a formidable one, except backroom candlelight politics ended Houston's presidential dreams.Also, how Lincoln benefit from "woke" political "armies," a houseless candidate and other stories.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/21/2020 • 45 minutes, 1 second

Jimmy Carter's speechwriter said "We were 30 points up, but unfortunately we had to campaign."A tight race turns to a veritable battle of gaffes between two newbie Presidential candidates.A surprise challenger and an unelected President.We go over the close '76 election, including a last-minute event that almost changed history.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/19/2020 • 35 minutes, 52 seconds

Truman's high-tech train, Dewey's We Go High optimism and the defeat that made him cling to it, Truman's risky calling of a Session of Congress and how it went badly for him in a few ways, and Dewey's decision to get angry, unfortunately first at an average citizen and only later at his opponent.This and other lesser-known stories of the 1948 Election.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/15/2020 • 51 minutes, 22 seconds

After the four TV debates between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960, there was talk of a fifth.That talk didn't result in another TV debate, but did provide one more campaign issue for a very tight election, and developed a new thing - TV debate negotiations.We look at 1960, the fifth debate talk, and other reasons besides the debates that affected the 1960 election results.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/9/2020 • 36 minutes, 4 seconds

From James Blaine's fainting spell days before Republicans chose a candidate, to Washington's extreme flu scare, to the SARS epidemic and a look at the Ever-So-Prescient Defoe's Journal of a Plague Year, Health and Sickness and Politics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/7/2020 • 1 hour, 9 minutes

When an obscure lawyer won a party's nomination for President in a surprise convention choice, he used his platform to take on a hate group.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/6/2020 • 32 minutes, 17 seconds

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought forth a week of mourning but also politics over the Supreme Court.We discuss the history behind election-year appointments, most notably 1968 and we look at the thorny issue of Court-Packing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/20/2020 • 49 minutes, 53 seconds

The 1880 election was close, with Democrats and Republicans seeking an advantage in its waning days when a letter hits a major city newspaper purporting to be in the hand of a candidate.It is a letter that could turn the election.With Todd Arrington, a historian at theJames A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio, we discuss James A. Garfield's surprise nomination and the Morey letter.We also discuss what could have been had Garfield lived.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/17/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 36 seconds

A hodge-podcast of bits of things.A bit about the Washington family, and ancestors he didn't know that he had.And some follow ups from other casts. About that 'Electric Horse' that Coolidge used for exercise. And Lincoln deals with fake news like a pro.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkInterested in Advertising? [emailprotected]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/15/2020 • 33 minutes, 37 seconds

From belt buckles, to town-halls to whether the veeps get to debate, a brief history of debate negotiations.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/8/2020 • 48 minutes, 44 seconds

The Democratic Convention in New York City in 1980 was not the example to follow for how to run a convention. With the help of "Reaganland" author and historian Rick Perlstein, we look at one of the most frustrating modern conventions. The fight between Ted Kennedy and Carter for the nomination, obscure rules challenges, delegates cajoled by generals, men in green and white, just a blip of Bill Clinton, Communists and fireworks and the handshake that doomed a ticket are among the items discussed.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/18/2020 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 14 seconds

We look at a question that's important for understanding future presidential races: Did Clinton Win Because of Ross Perot?Or Not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/13/2020 • 36 minutes, 43 seconds

A bit about an obscure procedure that can mean everything, from a 2011 episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/12/2020 • 30 minutes, 59 seconds

Usually a choice at the top of the ticket helps. But sometimes it doesn't. Bruce goes into his Top 10 Worst VP Picks.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/11/2020 • 41 minutes, 46 seconds

The early settlement of Southern Missouri, through the tale of William Monks told in 1908.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/11/2020 • 20 minutes, 55 seconds

Jimmy Carter's 1976 convention in New York handed him 30 percentage points in the polls, and is seen as one of the best . We look at what happened - from a strict chairman's gavel to a secret VP pick, from expert badge distribution to garbage cleanup, Also: possibly bugged phones, fighting crime, polyester suits, Delegate stories, Hunter Thompson and Joe Biden appearances., peanuts and fried chicken.(and In a few weeks - how it all went downhill in '80) Music:- Lee Rosevere and Dee Yan KeyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/27/2020 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 16 seconds

Why do people spend so much time watching the news? Bruce Carlson is interviewed by David, Brad at the IP...Frequently Podcast (hah)We discuss current events in the context of historical ones. Also, reverse virtue signaling. If interested in intellectual properties, business and some politics, check out Brad and Dave's podcast here: https://anchor.fm/ip-frequently Twitter: @IP_FrequentlyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/15/2020 • 30 minutes, 41 seconds

A bit of an American political story about politics, corn, common sense.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/14/2020 • 22 minutes, 55 seconds

One of Bruce's favorite interviews he's done on the podcast. These guys love Valley Forge and have some surprising insights. In this episode: Separating truth from lore about what is perhaps the most important moment of American Independence, along with authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.A very different Valley Forge emerges than the one in the textbooks.Politics, not the British nor the snow is the enemy. An integrated army of lower middle class soldiers, along with immigrants and Indians suffering tragic conditions,Only Washington's leadership and the arrival of a foreign drillmaster saves the United States.Music by Lee Rosevere.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/10/2020 • 59 minutes, 9 seconds

Eagle Claw, popularly known as Desert One, was the unsuccessful attempt to rescue hostages in Iran in 1980, hostages that had been held since the storming of the embassy in 1979.Replaying two previous podcasts on the topic, we look at the hostage-taking and the rescue attempt.How the plan may have worked?What went wrong?Also, why the embassy was stormed in 1979 and why it was the second time that year.Why one hostage was mad that he was rescued.These topics are discussed and more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/2/2020 • 49 minutes, 4 seconds

Baltimore in the 1850's was a fearsome place where politics and gangs were hard to separate.Yet it was the connecting stop for new Presidents and Union Soldiers getting to Washington D.C.We speak with Josh Mensch.Josh is the co-author with Brad Meltzer of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction history book The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It FailedLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/1/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 20 seconds

Newark N.J. suffered a brutal and consuming riot, or rebellion, depending on how you see things, in the hot summer of 1967. Through the voices of history, we hear about those events, what caused it, and the musician who got caught up and became an unlikely spark. Caught off guard, police and National Guard and a scuffle became a war. How the '67 events caused a change in government, was noticed in national politics, and how it remains an influence even for today's events.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/8/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 49 seconds

George Washington did not get a Cabinet as President. He created it. His precedents forged the institution and the President's relationship to the Executive Departments. Washington didn't fire a cabinet member, but he set the precedents in this area and in others. We are joined by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a historian with the white house historian Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution has been published by Harvard University Press.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/26/2020 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds

What caused The Great Depression, did FDR do anything to fix it, and how does it compare to our recent recessions? A 2008 cast that holds up well As events started to take shape in '08, , I remember sitting down in a park and scribbling the base of this podcast, with factoids thrown in later and stories from letters to the editors of newspapers of those who suffered through the Great Depression, and some from Studs Terkel's work.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/17/2020 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 1 second

In the wake of Occupy Movements, we took a look at what happened at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/13/2020 • 28 minutes, 37 seconds

We talk Idi Amin, Kim Jong-il and other despots with Scott Rank of History Unplugged Podcast joins us to talk about his book History's Nine Most Insane Rulers.We get into Amin's awful suppression of opposition, deportation of Indian and Pakistani Ugandans, and extra judicial killings.Other insane rulers were more amusing, and we talk about that too.Lee Rosevere provides music on this program - check out his music on bandcamp.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/12/2020 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 16 seconds

The May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State killed 4 students and wounded 9. Paula Stone Tucker was a student going through her work and studies on campus when she witnessed a historic event. We talk about Kent State, how the 4 days unfolded, and get Paula Stone Tucker's take on events. She is the author of the book Surviving a Kent State Memoir. We are grateful to Ohio vs. the World Podcast for lending the story of another Kent State shooting survivor Dean Kahler. Sign up for Alex's podcast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/1/2020 • 57 minutes, 13 seconds

Godwin's Law is Not a Law.And yet, it probably should be followed in most cases.(re-do of past episode that contained an error).The surprising history of the rule that one should not discuss Nazis in debates, and the person who is not a scientist nor a lawmaker who came up with it.Also, when you can violate the rule and what the rule says about meme-driven discussions in 2017.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/1/2020 • 27 minutes, 59 seconds

An unknown man in a forgotten office develops a number that makes and breaks Presidents. A poet turns his song towards a metal object. Two 19th century men tire themselves out making machines. They can't know their work will one day put us on the MoonAnd a man tries to invent an un-commerce, but may have built the 21st century economy instead. In the fifth episode of our series on American commerce, we look at the appraisal and measuring and counting of business.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/19/2020 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 47 seconds

When we aired this last year, the topic of commerce shutting down did not seem timely.Thus a re-run of our fourth of a series on American commerce, a look at three instances of when U.S. commerce was stopped seems appropriate.From an offensive war effort, to a bid for peace, to a management of peacetime. And we look at the effects of those interventions. The embargo of 1807 is an important part of the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, not often examined in detailed compared to other events.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/18/2020 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 30 seconds

A look at Truman,, the Marshall Plan and the 1948 Election.Why Truman thought he won, and why his opponent Dewey thought he ended up losing.How he pulled it off.With A.J. Baime, author of Dewey Beats Truman.This is A.J. Baime's second appearance on the podcast.Big national projects, big sacrifice and an incumbent President up for election all figure in.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/2/2020 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 41 seconds

The last-minute bid of California Governor Jerry Brown to unseat Jimmy Carter's nomination raised a lot of questions about politics that are still present today.Should electability be a factor among primary voters?Can you out-new the new candidate?What time is the right time for candidates to 'get out' Should critics shut up to help a nominee in the general or speak their mind?This, and the surprising figure still very much in politics today who tried to Stop Carter.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/23/2020 • 38 minutes, 33 seconds

In this episode we look at a historic campaign episode and try to solve a mystery of history of the 1884 election.Did GOP candidate Blaine hear the bigoted comments of a supporter, or didn't he?We also get an insider's view from a adept political reporter of how the other side jumped on the political opportunity created by the unfortunate comments of a reverend.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/18/2020 • 30 minutes, 15 seconds

We speak with Laura Spinney, science journalist and author of"Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World" and discuss the dreadful disease that claimed 50-100 million lives, more than the Great War that preceded it.The so-called 'Spanish Flu' caused global damage but also caused scientists to reflect and develop bettter science and public health strategies.But how much have we learned those lessons?We discuss these topics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/2/2020 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds

A look at 1980's first South Carolina primary and its intended role at the time as a firewall for conservative politics. We also look at how disco sucked, Dylan went Christian and some events that happened at the same time, all unrelated but in their own way meaningful. Lee Rosevere's excellent Music for Podcasts featured on the episode;Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/23/2020 • 44 minutes, 19 seconds

George Washington was highly influential in constructing a Constitution, but less so when it comes to the Bill of Rights. A few of them he said in one letter, he even found unnecessary. We just don't know which ones. We talk about Washington's role in the convention, his influence on government and what clues he gave in his politics of silence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/15/2020 • 31 minutes, 56 seconds

A stubborn impeached governor, odd caucus locations, real estate and politics. Bruce talks about the Iowa Caucus, how it works, changes in 2020, its history and influence and what things look like this year. Impeachment and the current universe of politics in the United States. He finds a silver lining in the whole impeachment discussion, and discuss impeachment and political fallout, and Trump's chances.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2020 • 45 minutes, 8 seconds

The scandal at the end of the 1968 election - the Chennault affair was obscure in history but recently has been examined in great detail.We look at one component - simply why Hubert Humphrey, Democratic candidate that had information about Nixon's actions, didn't reveal it?One explanation we don't buy, nor do Humphrey's friends - he was too Minnesota Nice to reveal what he knew.This belies what Humphrey did know exactly and what LBJ had held back.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2020 • 11 minutes, 58 seconds

In the wake of the events of Charlottesville, a look at the Neo Nazi rally in Skokie, IL in 1977 and the resulting Supreme Court Case and the ACLU's role.In recent days Skokie has been brought up; and a look at the history of events is useful.We look at Louis Brandeis's great speech on the First Amendment, Chief Justice Robert's view of it recently, Alito's other take.Finally Bruce wonders about the consequences of these rights in a social media world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/24/2020 • 36 minutes, 9 seconds

The history of the federal holiday starts with a strike and ends with a battle between President and SenateLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/20/2020 • 11 minutes, 16 seconds

We get into some additional facts about Presidents we didn't cover in the last episode. Plus we talk about George B. McClellan Jr, Congressman from New York and his experience in Congress in the 1890's.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/18/2020 • 23 minutes, 40 seconds

HST and JFK did not have a close relationship.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/17/2020 • 11 minutes, 51 seconds

A look at Grover Cleveland, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2020 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds

It's all of those things. Conversation with David Priess, MHCBUYP listener, COO of Lawfare, Author of several books - about impeachment and the decision to impeach, and the many sides to this question from Tyler to Clinton to Trump.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2019 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 22 seconds

The years from 1917 to 1924 are fractured yet formative for the world. After a terrible war, Germany, Russia and Ukraine are forever changed. New movements and scientific developments occur. We speak with Charles Emmerson, author of "Crucibe The Long End to the Great War and the Birth of a New World" about the period between 1917 and 1924 and what it says about today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2019 • 42 minutes, 3 seconds

Lincoln's career was partially built on his support for another President.We get into that, and why you wouldn't want Lincoln as an opponent.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/18/2019 • 20 minutes, 32 seconds

What was the true function of the Proclamation and the context surrounding it?How did people react at this time?Was slavery the true cause of the Civil War, and should North and South fit into liberal and conservative boxes.Could Congress pick the President?And what podcast advice does Bruce have?Bruce takes Listener Questions in this episode. Music from Chris Zabriskie, Chris Novembrino and Lee Rosevere on this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/14/2019 • 32 minutes, 54 seconds

We look at vice presidential and vice presidential candidate switches throughout history.And we speculate if a tactic last used in 1976 might find its way into the 2020 Election.We also get into the McGovern-Eagleton 1972 events and talk about Nixon and Hunter Thompson's car ride.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/11/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 55 seconds

Alexander Butterfield, Nixon’s deputy COS who revealed the existence of the taping system in the White House, gets only a small mention in Watergate history but he has a lot to contribute to the understanding of it.Herecently spoke to Bob Woodward in a new bookand his account and the records he kept for decades.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/5/2019 • 25 minutes, 11 seconds

It wasn't supposed to be a race.Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, John Glenn battle to take on Ronald Reagan in 1984.As do some other candidates.We look at the race that year and mine it for any insights into 2020 and American politics in general.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/22/2019 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 10 seconds

We look at theChase, Clinton and Johnson precedents for attempted impeachment, we attempt to answer questions about this oft-discussed, rarely used, and perhaps, poorly understood Constitutional function. Why is impeachment so rarely used?Why does the Senate try the President?Does the Senate become a Court when it does, or stay the Senate?What is a High "Misdemeanor?" And what does Aaron Burr have to do with all of this?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/20/2019 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 27 seconds

We discuss the life and career of Youngstown, Ohio congressman James Traficant with Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast. We rerun part of the episode from his podcast.We hear from Eric Murphy, director of the documentary "The Congressman from Crimetown"https://vimeo.com/ondemand/traficantThe frumpled congressman was a fixture of Ohio politics and a national controversial figure until his death in 2014.We discuss do as you please politics and if there is similarity between Traficant and TLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/20/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 47 seconds

Trump Reelection, Democratic Debates and Recent Court decisions discussed on the episode.It's a bit more lose than the norm, bear with Bruce as he tackles a lot in a short time and provides some sketches of things to come.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/1/2019 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 4 seconds

The history and context of the famous court case, and its aftermath.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/10/2019 • 32 minutes, 48 seconds

We talk about the new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Brexit, and Irish politics with Steven Byrne of What Am Politics Podcast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/31/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 24 seconds

we discuss a recent Supreme Court decision and corporations as people.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/20/2019 • 24 minutes, 37 seconds

With C-SPAN's Susan Swain and Brain Lamb we talk Theodore Roosevelt and LBJ.And we discuss their book The Presidents, and the unique ranking system they use to assess and order America's POTUSes.e also talk abut some of the historians who helped them.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/24/2019 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds

In the Pennsylvania colony, Benjamin Franklin was a force in convincing Quakers to protect the colony with militiaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/28/2019 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds

In our fourth of a series on American commerce, a look at three instances of when U.S. commerce was stopped, for a variety of reasons.The embargo of 1807 is an important part of the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, not often examined in detailed compared to other events. It brought serious economic problems, but was held up by Jefferson as an experiment by a peaceful power. We also examine his Treasury Secretary Gallatin, who had to implement the plan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/23/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 30 seconds

From John Adams and the Alien Sedition Act, Lincoln's rage and FDR's giggling sidekicks, from JFK's light warnings to Trump and the press as the people's enemy, we look at the relationship between President and the Press.Plus we are joined by Chris Novembrino of the Don't Worry About the Government podcast to discuss why actions of the 18th century may still be alive in today's politics.Music from Lee Rosevere, Nctrnm, AAAlato and Chris Zabriskie in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/1/2019 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 17 seconds

Surprising facts about the presidencies of John Tyler, JFK, LBJ, Chester Arthur and Millard Fillmore from Jared Cohen, author of Accidental Presidents, Eight Men Who Changed America. From Tyler's Grandkids, Arthur's Secret Correspondent and Adviser, and a new fact about LBJ's place on the ticket we discuss some surprising facts about those who became president by surprise.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/19/2019 • 54 minutes, 18 seconds

From a podcast on the signers completed in 2012 the story of Thomas Jefferson's early years, and other stories.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/1/2019 • 34 minutes, 58 seconds

About 3rd parties, with a focus on John Anderson's campaign and many others.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/20/2019 • 27 minutes, 4 seconds

Or so it seems these days.Liberals, conservatives, anti-globalists, Fed haters, socialists, libertarians all have a bone to pick with him.how much criticism does he deserve?We speak with Patricia O'Toole, the author of 'The Moralist - Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made."We look at the politics of tariffs, foreign policy, intervention, immigration, war and race through the lens of Woodrow Wilson.Remember to subscribe to My History Can Beat Up Your Politics on iTunes/Apple Podcasts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/18/2019 • 52 minutes, 39 seconds

Rerun from 2013, but obviously seems very relevant now.Alook at this attempt at a single, fix it amendment,to get over a reluctant President, which didn't work but has impacts on today's politics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/15/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 27 seconds

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3/1/2019 • 12 minutes, 10 seconds

A look at the life and career of Richard Nixon, from childhood to Presidency, originally aired in 2014 as 'Get Your Nixon On' This title feels more descriptive.I don't know whether time has changed this cast, or if this cast has more meaning now, or less, that is for the listener to judge.Music by Lee Rosevere.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/20/2019 • 59 minutes, 26 seconds

In answering a question about JFK's health and its role in Lyndon Johnson's decision to accept the Vice Presidency, Bruce takes a look at the people and factors surrounding Johnson's decision, Kennedy's motivations, Eisenhower's indirect role, and the confusing hours in a Los Angeles hotel that changed history.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/20/2019 • 30 minutes, 20 seconds

We are joined by the author of Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham LincolnVol II, Sidney Blumenthal.In this cast, he talks about Lincoln in the 1850's, as he emerges as a small-time lawyer to being 'woke' by the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Bill to make a stirring speech and come to a definite conclusion about the future of the nation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/12/2019 • 53 minutes, 25 seconds

Carter Ford '76, and the Presidential debate snafu that lead to an unplanned moment of silence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/1/2019 • 14 minutes, 42 seconds

a forgotten ally gets some credit in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/7/2019 • 12 minutes, 8 seconds

The history behind a rebellion against a state of the new United States, why it happened, its impact on our Constitution, and what it means today.From a 2014 cast, but it's been a while.Our sponsor is Warby Parker - excellent glasses (wearing them now as I write the shoow notes) check them out at www.warbyparker.com/myhistoryLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/5/2019 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 10 seconds

"Public offices are, what they should be, burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring with them intense labor and great private loss." So wrote a newly elected governor Jefferson to a friend.We take a look at his experience and the Revolutionary War in Virginia, discover a forgotten hero and learn a bit about Executive branch meets Legislative branch in the process.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/2/2019 • 34 minutes, 57 seconds

We discuss all things Ike with William Hitchco*ck - author of "The Age of Eisenhower."We talk about how President Eisenhower was a surprisingly good politician, how he navigated Civil Rights, Social Security and other domestic programs, how he dealt with LBJ.We discuss the failure that upset him the most, and what he may have gotten wrong.We also get to the bottom of that Military Industrial Complex. (PREMIUM SUBSCRIBERS - get a special episode on the 1957 Civil Rights Bill).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2019 • 51 minutes, 10 seconds

Was the past better? Were the "Good Old Days" really all they are chalked up to be?Gregg Easterbrook, author of It's Better Than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear, has a bold argument.Things are better now then they have ever been.A reminder about our sponsor Warby Parker eyeglasses - get your try on pack of 5 frames at www.warbyparker.com/myhistoryLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2019 • 34 minutes, 37 seconds

A mysterious crash.A strange contraption.A fateful race, an outbreak of violent activity and a crafty watch-seller.A look at the railroad history of America and the changes the railroad brought.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/29/2018 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 41 seconds

Bruce is interviewed on Ohio v. The World Podcast, which is the creation of MHCBUYP fan Alex Hastie.The subject is Curtis LeMay.Politically we know him as George Wallace's reluctant running mate in 1968.But there was much more to him, as Bruce and Alex discuss.His career spanned World War II, Kennedy,Vietnam, The Cold War and more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/28/2018 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 32 seconds

A unique boat is built to overcome a powerful challenge in interstate water commerce.a revolution is fed by fish.A writer turns commerce into words.A well known Revolutionary figure finds an agreeable industry, while young workers take a stand.A new high tech monopoly is broken, and a young boy gets his dream.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/28/2018 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 43 seconds

50 years ago, Medicare was created and some of it was recorded.We'll look at the original conversations that demonstrate LBJ's work on the bill, and compare the enactment of Medicare to the Affordable Care Act. And we'll contrast the two bill's passages and implementation, effect and popularity.Based on a previous cast called 'Medicare Atmosphere' from 2010... but updated and re-recorded.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/28/2018 • 38 minutes, 39 seconds

In this look at American commercial history we discuss the Black Thursday Stock market crash, the early career of Thomas Edison, how a popular game evolved from a anticorporate activist, and how Wall Street was once in Philadelphia, so to speak.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/27/2018 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 44 seconds

A few questions, some from an older cast that now bears repeating in the wake of a new speaker election, and others from the premium channel now elevated.Was Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal allowed to happen by a quiet public, or was thee resistance?And what would Revolutionary protests look like.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/25/2018 • 36 minutes, 10 seconds

The Saturday Night Massacre was the name given to the triple firing of a special prosecutor investigating President Nixon, the AG and the deputy AG on the same night in 1973. After the firing of the FBI Director by President Trump, all eyes are looking back on this historical event. Are they right to doLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/17/2018 • 31 minutes, 13 seconds

Bruce takes a look at one day in the life and career of President George H.W. Bush - not in his presidency but in his vice-presidency.That day revealed his leadership style and set future precedents, perhaps.March 30, 1981 the day of the attempted assassination of President Reagan.We also look at Bush's Presidency and legacy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2018 • 31 minutes, 35 seconds

Bruce and Daily Beast/CNN correspondent Matt K. Lewis talk about midterms, and Presidents post midterms.Bruce tells a story about Lincoln that he told 11 years ago. (more information on that story in the premium podcast).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/20/2018 • 37 minutes, 15 seconds

We are joined today by David Priess, former CIA intelligence officer and author about his new book on the history and the realities of impeachment, what people think it is, and what has really happened in history.He is the author of How To Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/14/2018 • 56 minutes, 12 seconds

More insights from our Episode 'Soccer and Repression' about the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/7/2018 • 29 minutes, 10 seconds

A law that may have given Billy The Kid a few more months of life, long enough to build a legend is still a part of today's politics.The rich history of the Posse Comitatus law that separated military from law enforcement and forbids, in some cases, the use of military on American soil., Music by Lee Rosevere, Squire Tuck and Lucas Gonze at freemusicarchiveLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/4/2018 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds

A look at one of America's earliest blockbusters, the little book that changed American minds: Common Sense, its author Thomas Paine, the impact it had at the time and what it might mean today. We also examine the creative differences Paine had with his printers, and how much it might have cost to advertise for a book in that time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/16/2018 • 39 minutes, 5 seconds

With some fringe talk about adding members to the court, a look FDR's court-packing scheme of 1937, why it failed and why it is a cautionary tale of a defeat of a powerful political figure.However, the story also has unique qualities and may not be the exact precedent some people use it for.What would be the consequences of an expansion of the Court's members, and what will happen with the Court post-Kavanaugh? Chris Novembrino of Don't Worry About the Government Podcast joins.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/16/2018 • 46 minutes, 50 seconds

The views of the 37th President on healthcare, his reaction to Clinton's healthcare plan and his own 1974 healthcare plan. Also: Nixon on Ike and Reagan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/18/2018 • 17 minutes, 52 seconds

All about Presidential Scandals.From how Watergate may have seemed like in 1972 on Election night, to Grant and Carter's troublesome friends, to the Iran Contra story, we look at White House mess-ups and election impact.Though recorded in 2012, and originally titled 'You're TV Lied to You' I believe it's just as relevant today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/3/2018 • 58 minutes, 53 seconds

In the past 100 years, over 80% of the first term midterms went badly for Presidents, and their party lost seats.But in a few cases they did not.And a few times when they did, the result was very little real change or even a kind of win.A look at first term midterms during the Presidencies of Chester Arthur, Harding, FDR, GW Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.Music by Josh Woodward and Lee Rosevere in this episode. Find them on the Free Music Archive website.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/6/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 27 seconds

With Leon Neyfakh of The 'Slow Burn' Podcast, now in its Season 2,(make sure to subscribe) we take a look at Presidential scandals and investigations including Watergate, Whitewater, the Travel Office snafu during the Clinton administration and others.Are there connections between the Nixon and Clinton troubles?Do supporters care about investigations?How would Clinton fare with the Me Too Movement today?Music by Lee Rosevere in this cast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2018 • 42 minutes, 52 seconds

Examining the moment in 1983 when nuclear war was possible with new research and stories from the Soviet side.How close did we come to war?And could that war have been accidental?w/ White House Correspondent for National Journal and Political Editor of The Atlantic Marc Ambinder, author of "The Brink - President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983." We double down on some of the points made in the Reagan podcast with Marc's exhaustive research.We also get into the recent Trump-Putin sumLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/29/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 50 seconds

You may know his tariff, but not him.A look at the man behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah.His history, his politics, his views on tariffs.His battles for a mix of conservative issues and progressive stands.And his battle to keep his own seat from religious intolerance.Plus a discussion on tariffs in history and the variety of different historical figures who have positive and negative views of tariffs.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/28/2018 • 53 minutes, 26 seconds

Chris Matthews of Hardball joins the program!! He has just finished his book Bobby Kennedy - A Raging Spirit.Chris talks about RFK and how his history and childhood, and his relationship with Joe Kennedy Senior that informed his own politics. Those politics, according to Matthews, were just starting to develop at the end of his life, as he sought to defend society's less fortunate, while keeping working people of all races in mind.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/28/2018 • 33 minutes, 7 seconds

All about the Bakken oil region of North Dakota and the recent boom.Fast money and fast growth in a state that had peaked in the 1930's High volume trucking on unsuited roads, High wages matched by high rents and local price inflation, hungry outsiders and upset locals, and ubiquitous "Man camps".We speak with Maya Rao,,author of "Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier" Music by Lee Rosevere, Squire Tuck and Josh Armistead.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/22/2018 • 51 minutes, 31 seconds

Everything you know about the Russian Revolution is wrong, and understanding that is the key to understanding today's Russia as well.A very interesting conversation with Mikhail Zygar, Editor in Chief of the TV Dozhd and the Author of All the Kremlin's Men.He joins us to speak about his book The Empire Must Die - Russia's Revolutionary Collapse.We talk Russia 1917 and the revolution before the Bolsheviks.We also talk Russia 2017 and Putin, America, democracy, struggle and more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/18/2018 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds

Elbridge Gerry lent his name to a tricky political maneuver.Not that he wanted to, or perhaps, deserved it.With gerrymandering of congressional districts and state legislative districts on the agenda of the Supreme Court, Bruce discusses the court case Gill v. Whitford and then revisits his cast from 2013 about Elbridge GerryLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/18/2018 • 1 hour, 5 seconds

Are economic good times always good? A look at the 1920's and the other side of booming economic times.This episode was recorded in 2014.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/17/2018 • 46 minutes, 35 seconds

In this quick episode, a missing part from the Ark of Commerce series, we look at the role of money in the battle between Confederate and Union governments.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/10/2018 • 10 minutes, 5 seconds

The story of the 1978 World Cup, a cautionary tale about democracy.The world spotlight on the junta that controlled Argentina that year helped focus some attention on the plight of the victims of a vicious dictatorship, but locally, may have enhanced support for the regime.We talk about soccer and politics, we talk about democracy and the dangers of losing it, we read a bit of Eduardo Galeano's Excellent Soccer in Sun and Shadow.Music from Lee RosevereLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/8/2018 • 48 minutes, 24 seconds

Taft fails in trying to lower tariffs, setting up his successor to do it.In frustration, he walks away from the White House.Meanwhile, his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, destroys the tariff in several populist arguments.A look at Payne-Aldrich, the 1909 tariff bill that was as least as important as Smoot Hawley.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/10/2018 • 32 minutes, 22 seconds

What it is like, the state of the profession and other thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/3/2018 • 8 minutes, 23 seconds

Is infrastructure always good?We talk with Greg Young of the Very Popular "Bowery Boys NYC" podcast, about infrastructure.In particular the story of Robert Moses and his career reforming New York's infrastructure.Until he met his match.We also talk about Trump's career in NYC, and whether Mark Zuckerberg is the new Vanderbilt.Music from Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/31/2018 • 49 minutes, 43 seconds

We speak once again to David Priess, former CIA Briefer and the author of The President's Book of Secrets.While last time we spoke mostly about Presidents and intelligence, this time we get into the other people who use intelligence and how they support the President.In the course of the discussion, we talk about what we can know about Trump's briefings, what it's like to be a briefer, and what it's like to work with Robert Mueller.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/14/2018 • 51 minutes, 49 seconds

A look at 1944 and how intrigue, manipulation, misrepresentation, a few martinis, a song, an axe and a finger in the page of a book changed the history of the Presidency.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/26/2018 • 43 minutes, 54 seconds

Populism, Corruption, Citizenship and Immigration.Rome struggled with these issues in its Republic phase.Bruce is joined by Mike Duncan, host of The History of Rome Podcast, to talk about the pre-fall of the Roman Republic, period of 146 to 78 BC and the cast of characters that struggled for power at the time.Mike has come out with a recent book called "The Storm Before the Storm," which delves into this topic.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/1/2018 • 48 minutes, 43 seconds

from D.W. Griffith to today, we look at the controversial use of movies and film in politics.And how using video instead of argument may be popular, but it has its flaws.We also look at some recent projects, Lincoln, Boardwalk Empire, Game Change to see how faithfully the history is treated.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/1/2018 • 48 minutes, 52 seconds

With the leader of China erasing that country's 2 term limit, we are taking a look back at the 2 term presidential limit in the United States, how recent it is and whether it's a good thing.This episode is from 2012.BTW - As you listen this will make more sense - Hilmar Moore, Mayor of Richmond Texas - died in 2012 and thus is no longer mayor of Richmond Texas, his wife is currently mayor.Probably makes the case in a way.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/27/2018 • 43 minutes, 43 seconds

The Mexican War, current U.S. politics, Mexican history are all topics Bruce joins Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers and Dr. Benjamin Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State University, hosts of the Road to Now Podcast in Mexico where they discuss Mexico relations in front of a live audience.But first a little commentary about Benito Juarez.Thanks to the Road to Now for hosting us at the Avett Brothers at the Beach FestivalLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/24/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 9 seconds

Where does Reagan fit into politics today?Would he fit in the modern GOP?Or somewhere else.Can you compare and contrast Reagan and Trump in any meaningful way?How was his Presidency?How do his accomplishment stack up and what can future politicians learn from his example?We review the dozen episodes of our series on President Reagan and attempt to answer a few questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/22/2018 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds

Did Gorbachev?Did anyone?Starting with the Reykjavik Summit of 1986 and a fly on the wall view of the events there, we look at the pro-Reagan and anti-Reagan arguments regarding his role in the ending of the Cold War, and try to capture everything.This is part eleven of A Dozen Ronald Reagans.Remember to support the podcast by subscribing to the premium podcast, as little as $2 a month: http://www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpoliticspremium.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/21/2018 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 6 seconds

It's 1983 and the world is scared. In answering the question of Reagan's credit for "winning the Cold War." it's necessary to break up the first-term pre-Gorbachev moves from the second-term moves.We do that in this episode.Remember to take advantage of the Special Offer from our Sponsor Bombfell internet Styling Service for Men www.bombfell.com/myhistory Use the URL for 25% off your first order.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/20/2018 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 48 seconds

An Election Changes Everything...A Secretary of State Loses Favor with the White House...A President Defies Norms...Secretaries Make Shocking Statements...Springsteen is Angry-A tremendous upheaval in politics occurred with a new President influenced by new media and speaking new political language, with a willingness to bend the rules.The upending culminates in a radical foreign policy no one expected and few, at that time, understood, so different it was literally thought to be from outer space.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/11/2018 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds

In the eight part of our series on the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, we look at the scandal that engulfed his administration, and management style mistakes that may have led to it.In the course of doing this we peel back a few layers, including the Walsh investigation and the critical Senate investigation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/9/2018 • 47 minutes, 24 seconds

Reagan is not often seen as a reformer but in many cases, there were massive shifts on domestic policy in the 1980s and not all of them were to the standard political right. Strange bedfellows Bill Bradley and Ronald Reagan work together to achieve something that hasn't been done since. Also an incredible failure that could paint the economic picture of the Reagan yeaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/6/2018 • 48 minutes, 51 seconds

Homelessness, education, healthcare and other domestic issues under constant evaluation during the time of the Reagan Presidency. We look at the personal Ronald Reagan and the contention of critics that his policies didn't match the person. We look at first term and second term policy differences on homelessness, and the contention by supporters that homelessness was focused on by media in the 80's but not during other Presidencies. Finally, we look at Reagan's response to AIDS.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/4/2018 • 45 minutes, 24 seconds

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1/2/2018 • 41 minutes, 32 seconds

Bell's telephone was not the first.Another competing company had a unique marketing method - bribing Congress.And Bell spent his life dealing with it.About the Pan-Electric Telephone Company.Also about citizens giving their money to the Treasury without the IRS asking.It has a longer history than you might think.From a bonus episode, recorded in 2018 but released in 2021 to the public site.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2018 • 34 minutes, 12 seconds

We know about the first half of the Declaration of Independence and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the Declaration also contains a listing of facts submitted to a "candid world" detailing what was wrong in the American colonies. The Grievancesare the second half of the Declaration of Independence. We discuss with Tim Patrick, listener and author of "Self-Evident: Discovering the Ideas and Events That Made the Declaration of Independence Possible"Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2018 • 32 minutes, 44 seconds

James Baker called Reagan's foreign policy "a witches brew." In one country, a longshot try for peace. In others, alliances with warmakers. Reagan's policy towards seven nations - El Salvador, Lebanon, Poland, Nicaragua, China, Grenada and Guatemala examined in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/31/2017 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 43 seconds

We seek to solve two puzzles: How did Reagan the Truman booster become Reagan the Goldwater acolyte? And when he entered politics, became GOP nominee and President, what were the economic results of his Presidency? Over 30 Bonus Episodes for those who are subscribed to the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics Premium EXTRA Podcast, you'll get more content and help the support the podcast as well. Go to www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpoliticspremium.com to sign up! .Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/29/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 45 seconds

1982 doesn't go as well for Ronald Reagan as 1981 did.Recession hits, a recession that challenges cuts of the previous year.Compromises, new taxes, the reality of deficits hit hard.David Stockman, the chief budget czar of Reaganomics is blocked by others and gets frustrated.Reagan makes a defining speech.Part 2 of 12 of our series.For more My History Can Beat Up Your Politics sign up for premium at www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpoliticspremium.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/26/2017 • 52 minutes, 41 seconds

Replay from 2016 First in our series on Ronald Reagan that will have twelve episodes. The Presidency we discuss almost didn't happen. A look at the attempt on Reagan's life, his first year and why the shooting was not an unimportant incident of his Presidency but directly connected to his performance in the first year. We also go over the Dozen Ronald Reagans Concept - that there are twelve different aspects to him to examine both in reality and in the perception of Reagan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/23/2017 • 1 hour, 6 seconds

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12/20/2017 • 24 minutes, 39 seconds

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12/18/2017 • 20 minutes, 34 seconds

The ERA, DNC primary rigging.A little alt his where Ford becomes VP under Reagan...Bruce takes questions and offers his attempted answers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/9/2017 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 31 seconds

get more into a bunch of topicsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/2/2017 • 35 minutes, 56 seconds

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10/24/2017 • 14 minutes, 38 seconds

In a day everything changed and a new President inhabited the chair in the White House.The country and the world were anxious.Russia and Asia Pacific were frightening foreign policy issues.We are speaking of 1945, but as A.J. Baime, author of The Accidental President suggests, there are some similarities to today.A.J. Joins us on the program.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/17/2017 • 50 minutes, 3 seconds

Can a President be impeached more than once.Been there, addressed that on the podcast, before it happened.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/4/2017 • 15 minutes, 4 seconds

Yes, the term was once used.What's in a party name, and who gets to call a party a name?And other questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/3/2017 • 17 minutes, 31 seconds

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10/2/2017 • 12 minutes, 58 seconds

He was essential to the colonial resistance to the Stamp Act.He was the bulwark of the American Revolution in Virginia. and supported Washington when others did not.Yet for many Americans, Patrick Henry is known for making one speech and uttering the words 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.' In this interview with Jon Kukla, author of Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, we seek a fuller picture of this important man and discuss the Revolution, the Constitution and Slavery.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/5/2017 • 48 minutes, 22 seconds

While so much attention is focused on splits in the GOP, there is a gaping split on the left that while, perhaps not large, is important to understanding both what happened in 2016 and the politics of 2017 and moving forward.Special guest Chris Novembrino, of the 'Don't Worry About the Government' Podcast, has an interesting analysis of the splits between Progressives and Technocrats that will determine what happens in the future.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/22/2017 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 29 seconds

On the 40th Anniversary of the rock star's death, We talk to Bob Crawford and Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road to Now Podcast about Elvis Presley, American life, rock and roll, drugs, the 'Shut Up and Sing' debate and many other things. Music (theme www.dontworry.tv and www.bensound.com -background)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/15/2017 • 56 minutes, 49 seconds

About the tragic event and its impact on Wilson and the U.S. entering the war.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/9/2017 • 35 minutes, 45 seconds

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8/1/2017 • 25 minutes, 23 seconds

James Otis, Robert Yates and Mercy Otis Warren are not names that roll off the tongue, but they did make important contributions to Constitutional debate. Senator Michael Lee's recent book Written Out of History details Founders he says have been 'written out of history.' Bruce looks at some of these men and women, and weighs in on the claim.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2017 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds

Polarized politics, fear, a media with intent to inflame and make its owners famous, no budging on either side, confidence and even mania - that's the combo that author Paul Starobin of the Atlantic and the New Republic describes as the factors that lead to South Carolina's secession in 1860.We talk to him about his book "Madness Rules the Hour:" Charleston 1860 and the mania for war.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/22/2017 • 47 minutes, 59 seconds

In this episode, I interview decorated Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" Star Kevin Lacz. He is he author of THE LAST PUNISHER, A Seal Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi.He served with Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie American Sniper and played himself in the film.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/23/2017 • 46 minutes, 2 seconds

A cartoon leads to a tangent for Bruce, but an interesting one.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/14/2017 • 18 minutes, 43 seconds

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6/13/2017 • 29 minutes, 24 seconds

We tackle a group of topics in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/29/2017 • 36 minutes, 17 seconds

Everything about Vice Presidents running for President, why the office was almost eliminated after an election, a little about me, more about Nixon and Kissinger and a What If about the 1976 election.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/29/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 45 seconds

The rareness of SCOTUS actually finding laws of Congress unconstitutional might surprise some, though it does act in big ways when it feels it hast to.That and SCOTUS judges who have surprised Presidents.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/28/2017 • 13 minutes, 36 seconds

How does history create a Presidential image?We try to answer this with a look at how Lincoln became an image.Not only were historians involved but the family, a sculptor, some oddballsand some really good Lincoln friends.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/20/2017 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds

In this episode, we go ‘across the pond’ and think about politics, with our special guest Stephen Byrne from WhatAmPolitics Podcast, a listener to the program and someone that Bruce has spoken to whenever UK events happen. We discuss: Why is Britain voting for the 3rd or 4th time in 3 years? What does this […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/16/2017 • 47 minutes, 52 seconds

With allthe tariff talk recently, it's worth noting where former Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan stood, for free trade - though not out of a concern for business.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/6/2017 • 6 minutes, 45 seconds

The textualism of conservative Justice Scalia and liberal Justice Hugo Black is contrasted and compared as we anticipate the arrival of Neil Gorsuch to the Court.Gorsuch is a committed textualist.What does that mean?We look at that, we look at allof the different ways judges think, and the (often straw-manned) concept of living constitution.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/13/2017 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 58 seconds

Presidents and Intelligence, from Kennedy to Trump.With a particular focus on the PDB or the Presidents Daily Briefing with Dr. David Priess, the Author of The President’s Book of Secrets. We discuss: Tension Presidents and TheCIA, In History and Today How Kennedy’s Pace Dictated How Agencies Work What the President’s Daily Brief DoesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/2/2017 • 50 minutes, 17 seconds

…and probably for a good reason. 1968 and an announcement of a bombing halt over Vietnam by LBJ in the last week of the election has all sides moving in many directions. Evidence points to Nixoncampaign involvement in scuttling talks through a third party connected to South Vietnamese elites, that the FBI became aware of […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/4/2017 • 22 minutes, 23 seconds

Further conversation brought about from my interview with Daily Beast's John Avlon about his Washington's Farewell book. More specifically, how does one use George Washington in a debate? Then and now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/28/2017 • 18 minutes, 32 seconds

George Washington is a distant figure.Sometimes, because of the distance in time, he appears too ancient to influence America’s debates today.But he was a real person, and he was involved in politics and dealt with partisanship.He also left behind instructions for future generations. Daily Beast.com Editor-in-Chief, CNN Political Analyst John Avlon joins […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/13/2017 • 38 minutes, 6 seconds

Not everyone can be an FDR, but everyone tries. A look at the American tradition of 100 days – the period in which the President, supposedly, must get everything done.A White House mastering it, and another White House, besieged by the press, not mastering it.A professor turned politician driving Congress in a forgotten fight. […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/5/2017 • 47 minutes, 9 seconds

The concept of a President earning a rightto govern and direct the agenda on behalf of the People is, in historical terms, a new concept.No suchconcept is present in Constitution, nor does it appear,was imagined by Constitutional supporters or opponents.Instead it is the result of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency.A President that has […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/30/2017 • 49 minutes, 16 seconds

Despite a tendency towards state action and small actions at the general level, even the early American government knew that data - seeking would have a role.and they put a man in charge of it up to the task - Thomas Jefferson.From the 1790's to the 1880's to today, a look at Big Data and the government.Based on an episode from 2013.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/26/2017 • 16 minutes, 3 seconds

From Roger Taneyto Charles Warren (pictured) to John Tower, the few and the not so proud perhaps.It is rare for the choice of a President not to get their choice.Butthere have been a few rejections.And why?Were they rejected for great reasons?Not often.Politics sometimes very insider and even petty lead […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/11/2017 • 23 minutes, 11 seconds

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1/9/2017 • 27 minutes, 42 seconds

Russians, spying, Putin, Soviets, American responses.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2017 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 11 seconds

it's complicated, but evidence weighs on the right.Though we caution- Godwin's rule should apply and smart debaters shouldn't reverse and call right wingers Nazis.On one hand 'socialism' is in the party name, which pre-dates Hitler's involvement.On the other hand, they associated with right wing parties and killed those of left-wing parties.Communists, the ultimate left was always and forever their targets.Only Nazis, or neo-nazis should be called by that name.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2017 • 9 minutes, 15 seconds

Based on a new book by Bruce, a look at the myth that the President creates jobs, from Monroe to Kennedy to TrumpLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/1/2016 • 53 minutes, 11 seconds

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11/24/2016 • 31 minutes, 31 seconds

Kamala Harris is the 49th Vice President, Biden the 46th President?Why is this - I looked at this in 2016, along with other listener questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/24/2016 • 19 minutes, 54 seconds

A look at the election of 1916, also a surprise to supposed-President Hughes.And about 2016, how close all of us were and how far away, and what happens now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/10/2016 • 48 minutes, 58 seconds

Aninterview with Ben and Bob (who turned out to be a fellow college grad of mine) of the excellent Road to Now podcast we discuss all sorts of things about Presidential elections.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/7/2016 • 44 minutes, 7 seconds

Was it a comeback, really, or did the polls just get what was going on wrong.Days before the 2016 election, we looked at this question.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/1/2016 • 56 minutes, 50 seconds

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10/27/2016 • 10 minutes, 49 seconds

The history of 2nd debates in American History.Often this is where the action happens. In 1960, it changed the election campaign even if no one noticed.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/13/2016 • 24 minutes, 56 seconds

Two candidates.Both disliked by their parties.Not loved by voters.One maybe slightly better than the other.Until a scandal breaks, making the election a squeaker.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/2/2016 • 36 minutes, 4 seconds

The October Surprise scandal that could have been, but almost brought down LBJ.What it says about history and today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/29/2016 • 32 minutes, 28 seconds

The final speech of a candidate throughout history.It's usually a smooth process, but sometimes there's a story.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/14/2016 • 19 minutes, 53 seconds

All about the 4th AmendmentLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/5/2016 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 29 seconds

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8/17/2016 • 32 minutes, 8 seconds

The debate rages over how to bring our factories back in the United States and in 2016, it crossed parties to the Republican side as well as the Democratic party side.We look at the issues behind this debate.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/2/2016 • 18 minutes, 10 seconds

Story of the zany election in 1840 which some felt was to "Pop" for its time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/7/2016 • 12 minutes, 40 seconds

Delegates to a party from a state that the party wont carry in an election.(Vermont for today's Republicans, Alabama for today's Democrats).Should they have an influence on party nominations.This question is as old as at least 1860, and it helped Trump as much as it helped Lincoln a bit.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/7/2016 • 23 minutes, 16 seconds

Convention scheduling, and the reasons for it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/16/2016 • 30 minutes, 21 seconds

Interview with the Don't Worry About the Government Cast from May 2016Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/25/2016 • 1 hour, 41 seconds

As President Obama offers his farewell commentary, a look at our 2012 cast on George Washington‘s Farewell Address and a few other timely thoughts. http://www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com/farewell.mp3Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/11/2016 • 22 minutes

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5/11/2016 • 34 minutes, 7 seconds

A campaign within a campaign to control and understand a novel candidate in this brief episode we look at how members of the Clinton Gore campaign sought to deal with a problem.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/9/2016 • 11 minutes, 25 seconds

How James Madison and Alexander Hamilton interpreted the Constitution, from a 2012 episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/9/2016 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds

From 1812 to today, a lesson:Neither side will win.Your'e side probably won't win, not for long, per this episode.It was recorded before 2016, and still I think it applies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/9/2016 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 25 seconds

a look at an older historic nationality that was/is very influential.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/21/2016 • 45 minutes, 35 seconds

Bruce gives his best imitation of a PBS telethon and reveals a special offer for donors. Also Huey Long visits the show (well you know, not really) a discussion of vetoes and the naming of wars...and because not even MHCBUYP can avoid it, we talk about Trump...and the Kingfish.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/19/2016 • 33 minutes, 41 seconds

There have been some pretty interesting elections for Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States, but only one where the Congressional Mace had to be pulled out in order to be used as a potential weapon.We go over the 1849 election, as well as some other past speaker elections.We look at the question: Could a coalition of party members elect their own speaker.While technically possible, it simply hasn't happened since 1855.What about the 1976 election?Carter's win was so close.Many people said the Nixon pardon affected their vote?We discuss some other factors, including Reagan's primary challenge, Carter's electoral strengths and inflation to come to a conclusion that the White House was going Democrat in 1976 in any case, unless the memory of Watergate could be removed from voters' memory.Of course Democrats would only hold the White House for four years, before inflation among other factors would kick them out.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/20/2015 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds

a look a the Signers of the Declaration and their wig-wearing. Or in a lot of cases powdering. And other stories. From a 2012 podcast on the signers of the Declaration.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/15/2015 • 22 minutes, 50 seconds

Even while dealing with a Civil War, Lincoln was focused on foreign policy.And one key nation was China.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/25/2015 • 52 minutes, 15 seconds

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11/19/2015 • 21 minutes, 7 seconds

We look at the famous - darn fool mistake comment.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/21/2015 • 19 minutes, 37 seconds

A bit about Cotton Mather and the unknown man held in slavery to him (for a time)who saved Bostonians from smallpox.The story is an odd mixture of religiousity and science.Since vaccines could not be proven for years to come, it took a man of faith to spread the word that they were a good thing.Also, the Year of 13 Candidates.A Supreme Court plaintiff that wanted to lose.The very small Lincoln family tree (though that's controversial)And more, in this hodge-podcast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/15/2015 • 35 minutes, 33 seconds

A podcast from 2015 where we looked at odd Presidential candidates and Trump's chances as it seemed then in 2015.Did it age well?Maybe, maybe not.Hey, Bruce is not perfect.Still I think it brings up interesting discussion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/16/2015 • 32 minutes, 34 seconds

A history of government representing, or not representing, people.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/15/2015 • 51 minutes, 27 seconds

The 1980 GOP primary, a year with a large field of candidates- larger than remembered - makes up Your Tasty Entree in this delicious podcast of TV history and politics.Also the series finale of Mad Men and how it links to historical discussion.Call this Your Starch Dish.For Your Veggies, a discussion of the 13 other prominent British Colonies that didn't rebel, and why.Finally for Your Dessert Pie, a discussion of the plot of House of Cards and its plausibility regarding the resignation of a VP based on history.It's a hodge-podcast that you'll enjoy, so get your tray table ready.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/20/2015 • 51 minutes, 32 seconds

A look at the politics of 2015Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/1/2015 • 43 minutes, 3 seconds

If the Congress hadn't tried to give Nixon trouble, they might have not handed the Presidency so much power, and other thoughts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/21/2015 • 32 minutes, 16 seconds

Know Nothings were once derided but their ideas do return again and again in politics, from 2007Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/6/2015 • 23 minutes, 30 seconds

In the wake of Obamacare problems, we look at the frustrations of those attempting to implement Social Security.The first consultant told Congress to drop the idea.When they refused, an incredible system was developed in the Pre Computer Age.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/25/2014 • 50 minutes, 2 seconds

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12/11/2014 • 30 minutes, 24 seconds

history of the reactipon speech to the State of the UnionLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/3/2014 • 17 minutes, 16 seconds

From 2014, a story of a republican/democrat challenge to a Federalist stronghold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/15/2014 • 41 minutes, 58 seconds

When does this law about helping foreign governments take effect?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/16/2014 • 27 minutes, 50 seconds

Will President Obama retain his protective Senate, a very rare political situation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2014 • 29 minutes, 5 seconds

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2/2/2014 • 57 minutes, 9 seconds

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1/1/2014 • 21 minutes, 43 seconds

War and the effect on Presidential elections.It's not as clear as we think from the Lincoln quote, which even Lincoln didn't mean to be applied the way it is today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/10/2013 • 23 minutes, 45 seconds

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8/1/2013 • 25 minutes, 34 seconds

or Don't. The Senate in historyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/5/2013 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds

Second Terms Worst Than the FirstLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/2/2013 • 28 minutes, 11 seconds

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1/2/2013 • 22 minutes, 53 seconds

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12/5/2012 • 33 minutes, 48 seconds

The importance of debates in a campaign, from 2012Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/23/2012 • 35 minutes, 21 seconds

A Bunch of Topics, VP Hobart, DeportationLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/4/2012 • 41 minutes, 58 seconds

Virginia and incumbent Presidents in Elections..Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/19/2012 • 21 minutes, 22 seconds

A bit about those that were VP candidates on a ticket, and their future prospects. Everyone thinks they will make great future Presidential candidates, but their status as part of a losing ticket usually doesn't help. Except this one guy...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/9/2012 • 22 minutes, 51 seconds

Bruce Reacts to Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair at RNC 2012Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2012 • 39 minutes, 11 seconds

1916 was different in many ways..including an electoral quirk.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/7/2012 • 21 minutes, 52 seconds

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6/6/2012 • 14 minutes, 31 seconds

From a 2009 Episode, answering a question about healthcare reform, Bruce delves into the Founders and if they were concerned with individual-level problems.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/3/2012 • 48 minutes, 42 seconds

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3/12/2012 • 29 minutes, 10 seconds

All about the 1812 Election, a rough one for James MadisonLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/3/2012 • 30 minutes, 19 seconds

Some Presidents have mastered a certain kind of media or another.We look at this in this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2012 • 48 minutes, 10 seconds

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1/1/2012 • 41 minutes, 41 seconds

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10/10/2011 • 49 minutes, 45 seconds

from 2011.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/27/2011 • 30 minutes, 13 seconds

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6/8/2011 • 41 minutes, 16 seconds

a bit from the now public Great GatsbyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/6/2011 • 8 minutes, 3 seconds

A tragic event has Bruce thinking about political violence and historyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/12/2011 • 20 minutes, 23 seconds

and communism, and a few other things (from 2011)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/4/2011 • 5 minutes, 42 seconds

The last days of Ford and Carter 76 illustrates how close an election can get when the President is not popular but not unpopular.When it's a sitting President - does the person the party picks even matter or is it all about the Incumbent?We look at this.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/20/2011 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds

There appears to be a trend that when Presidents lose the House, the party loses the next Presidential Election.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/11/2010 • 17 minutes, 25 seconds

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11/18/2010 • 27 minutes, 40 seconds

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10/11/2010 • 42 minutes, 52 seconds

When is a meeting not a meeting?When it's a Clayton's MeetingLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/7/2010 • 48 minutes, 46 seconds

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9/16/2010 • 28 minutes, 54 seconds

looking at the decision, its meaning, its interpretation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/13/2010 • 33 minutes

History Doesn't Look Kindly on it, and at least one advisor told a President to attack a country insteadLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/1/2010 • 20 minutes, 57 seconds

While Social Security was developed in the 1930's, it's possible to say that there were always some mechanisms for older persons, though not universal ones.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/16/2010 • 39 minutes, 40 seconds

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3/15/2010 • 21 minutes, 53 seconds

All About Statehood.What it means, how did Hawaii and Alaska get added, why aren't there more states?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/1/2010 • 46 minutes, 36 seconds

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1/10/2010 • 30 minutes, 50 seconds

Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? MinicareLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/10/2010 • 28 minutes, 53 seconds

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1/3/2010 • 28 minutes, 14 seconds

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1/1/2010 • 37 minutes, 38 seconds

From 2008, when I thought we might get one.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2010 • 54 minutes, 31 seconds

A bit about these subjects as a decade turns.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2010 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 5 seconds

we look at former President Bush's memoir.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/10/2009 • 19 minutes, 27 seconds

Story of big legislationLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/9/2009 • 34 minutes, 11 seconds

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9/8/2009 • 21 minutes, 29 seconds

A comparison between two Presidents.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/11/2009 • 47 minutes, 1 second

Second years of Presidencies just seem to bring trouble...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/8/2009 • 33 minutes, 32 seconds

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6/1/2009 • 27 minutes, 40 seconds

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6/1/2009 • 23 minutes, 53 seconds

Listener QuestionsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/4/2009 • 35 minutes, 7 seconds

We take a look at what happened with TARP and the history behind it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/10/2009 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds

A look at close re elections, starting w Truman.Is a trend apparent?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/3/2009 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds

The history of PA as a 'swing state' goes way back.We talked about it in 2008Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/10/2009 • 23 minutes, 51 seconds

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2/9/2009 • 13 minutes, 53 seconds

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2/1/2009 • 27 minutes, 19 seconds

A look at a President's first year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/2/2009 • 30 minutes, 37 seconds

Let's talk about beer, tea and veeps.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2009 • 31 minutes, 1 second

About the 2008 ElectionLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/2/2008 • 34 minutes, 5 seconds

Why did the 2008 election go the way it did?we look at that.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/1/2008 • 39 minutes

Cast from 2008 looking at the futureLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/1/2008 • 39 minutes, 59 seconds

The 2008 Election was big news, but a lot of little news happened too.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/12/2008 • 21 minutes, 36 seconds

Would a WPA style program work in modern times?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/11/2008 • 45 minutes, 23 seconds

a look at America's financial panicsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/8/2008 • 43 minutes, 54 seconds

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9/17/2008 • 37 minutes, 40 seconds

a look at the origins of the SecondLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/9/2008 • 29 minutes, 16 seconds

A look at the first presidential year of James Monroe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/20/2008 • 18 minutes, 19 seconds

Mission creep and good intentions lead to military involvement in two historical scenarios, one involving President Reagan the other President Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/14/2008 • 52 minutes, 33 seconds

Presidents and House ElectionsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/2/2008 • 22 minutes, 29 seconds

A Surprise VP NominationLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2008 • 23 minutes, 20 seconds

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7/24/2008 • 20 minutes, 42 seconds

a bit of historyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/19/2008 • 13 minutes, 10 seconds

A look at Missouri as a swing stateLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/12/2008 • 7 minutes, 59 seconds

listener questions from 2008Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6/5/2008 • 43 minutes, 52 seconds

Using History to Decide the 2008 election and telling some stories along the way.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/14/2008 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 53 seconds

There are still some kingly decisions in our governmental structure.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5/12/2008 • 17 minutes, 53 seconds

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4/10/2008 • 27 minutes, 14 seconds

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2/7/2008 • 29 minutes, 8 seconds

Though the first tax cut was in 1872, people werent' really aware they were getting a cut. The tax cut debate we know started in the 20's but really took shape in the early 60's when Kennedy introduced a stimulative tax cut.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/2/2008 • 19 minutes, 45 seconds

Virginia Then and NowLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/13/2008 • 38 minutes, 11 seconds

Attempts to make the primaries work better over time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/9/2008 • 19 minutes, 38 seconds

History of a Political Primary FirstLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/1/2008 • 21 minutes, 10 seconds

From MacDonald to Churchill to Blair, a little bit about British Prime Ministers and U.S. PresidentsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/1/2007 • 13 minutes, 10 seconds

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11/22/2007 • 7 minutes, 42 seconds

From 2007, A Talk about Gerald FordLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/11/2007 • 19 minutes, 57 seconds

Lincoln's creative plan to deal with a three way election in history.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/8/2007 • 27 minutes, 12 seconds

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5/19/2007 • 29 minutes, 51 seconds

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5/14/2007 • 56 minutes, 27 seconds

How Objective Has the Media Been in HistoryLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/10/2007 • 35 minutes, 48 seconds

The defense to a Presidential Power, and its usage over time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3/4/2007 • 22 minutes, 41 seconds

history of immigrationLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2/3/2007 • 27 minutes, 1 second

A Brief history of the Federal Reserve.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/20/2007 • 29 minutes, 27 seconds

History of the presidential veto. Andrew Jackson to now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1/12/2007 • 22 minutes, 41 seconds

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1/1/2007 • 35 minutes, 14 seconds

a history of polling and polls, and Truman 1948 is only part of it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/1/2006 • 26 minutes, 45 seconds

A state born in politics, playing a big role in elections then and now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/21/2006 • 12 minutes, 34 seconds

About the history of an important agencyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/15/2006 • 23 minutes, 13 seconds

How objective was the media in the past.In Civil War America, it depended who you read and what their mood was.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/6/2006 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds

an unintended instrumentLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/1/2006 • 23 minutes, 46 seconds

How wars are ended in Vietnam and elsewhere.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/17/2006 • 24 minutes, 26 seconds

many sides of the 16th POTUSLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/16/2006 • 31 minutes, 9 seconds

In one of our first episodes when we launched the podcast, we talked all about Speakers.From Mullenburg to Hastert, to Joe Cannon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8/1/2006 • 26 minutes, 25 seconds

The first episode of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics rom July 2006.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/2/2006 • 20 minutes, 51 seconds

We look at TV's history and its impact on politics from the beginning.One of my first episodes, perhaps the second.As we approach the 15th anniversary of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, worth a listen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/1/2006 • 32 minutes, 36 seconds